What is Free Will? | Episode 210 | Closer To Truth

In the scene where Dr. Khun is lifting weights he is still wearing his usual all black dress clothes hahaha

What is Dennet talking about, biology is physics essentially, but on a larger scale than the physics of particles. Or to put it another way, biology is chemistry and chemistry is physics, so biology is still physics. Its like he's treating biology as a set distinct to the physics set, but it's a set inside of the physics set (as a Venn diagram)

In this episode, free will has been killed and crushed. Each of the appearing scientists danced on her grave. R I P

I agree events in the physical world are determined by previous events and choices. I can't wrap myself around the suggestion that free will and consciousness is determined by previous events. To me awareness, consciousness and free will are not physical, they are free from the physical world and causual events and determinism. Peace!

Thank you Dr. Kuhn for bringing closer to truth to us

Ah, the drama of thinking! Thanks for this series Lawrence.

The self-reflection that makes meaningful verbalization possible is a break with the instinctive reactions characteristic of the lower animals. This break is the equivalent of what we call free will.

I honestly do not even know whether or not I am CHOOSING to watch this video or if its just something that is happening to me?

I feel like a possible way to reconcile determinism and free will could be to regard free will as an after-the-fact experience of agency as a byproduct of constructing the brain’s reality narrative, but that the process of constructing that narrative strengthens/weakens/creates new associations between neurons. So a person’s actions/reactions in a given situation result from that person’s neuroanatomy and the way it’s been shaped by prior sensory input integration. Let’s say someone has a habit of walking into their bathroom and brushing their teeth without turning the light on for some reason. Then one day, they get an ant infestation in their bathroom. The new associations created in their brain make it more likely that they’ll decide to turn on the light before brushing their teeth. But that could be overridden, too. Maybe sometimes the person feels they’re too tired to bother flipping the light switch and decide to live dangerously and take their chances with the ants.

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