Dr. Nita Farahany - Determinism & Freedom

[Clear404]

She's talking nonsense. We can't 'decide' what has value.  So that's the first mistake. Second mistake is to just assume that if one thinks all actions are a product of causes this is incompatible with us being agents and with moral responsibility. Third mistake is to think that the psychological fact that we might continue to make judgements after some discovery in some way validates those judgements. So, thoroughly confused in my view. And in fact.

[happinesson]

i believe in her insights!

[colpadrian]

Eloquent indeed. Yet I still find it impossible to refute hard determinism except perhaps in the the quantum world. Even our most "spontaneous" action seems stuck in the cement of space time. At the quantum level It is not clear for instance how the decay of the the sodium 40 isotope in the brain might influence subsequent macro behavior. It may very well be, although the Stenger / Penrose arguments seems inconclusive (at least to me).

[Professoranton]

Many thanks!

[musekiteer]

Much more sensible than that ass-backwards argument of ZOMGitsCriss'.

[zapo147]

Wow, she is very eloquent and precise with her language!