Dialogue with ProfessorHansen (Time, Evolution, Memory, Imagination, Freedom)

The Philosopher's Corner: http://www.youtube.com/user/ProfessorHansen

Category:

Education

Tags:

• evolution
• time
• temporality
• memory
• brain
• agency
• mind
• calendars
• clocks
• language
• tools
• imagination
• freedom
• constraint
• control
• hierarchy
• ProfessorHansen

[history797]

WOW BRO THAT NICE VIDEO ALL PEOPLE ON YOUTUBE

[420HoLLyWooD420]

Anton: Awesome dialogue.

Hansen: Uh Uh yea and furthermore and uh yea and so forth.

Anton: Right, ...Right,

Anton: Another awesome dialogue

[CharlieUlivarri]

@Neueregel Hi Neuer. If i was to say that free-will is a spiritual property of the human soul and no an actual measureable feature, what would you think? You are stating these things as facts of free will but you are only making claims without showing how you got the claim. I am looking for the argument that starts at the beginning leading to free-will, not starting at the end (free will) and then deduces that it comes from the brain ..... well, not the brain, culture .... maybe..

[Neueregel]

@CharlieUlivarri Hi. Free-Will is an emergent property of the conscious brain and not an actual measurable feat. It's a qualitative behavioural feat, regarding potential decision making. The savage has the human potential (nature) yet it lacks the proper developmental and environmental (nurture). Free will is both nature+nurture,so the savage has both to a certain degree. Read Francis Crick, Dennet, Hodstafer and especially Ray Kurzweil for more info on consciousness and the brain-to-mass ratio\

[CharlieUlivarri]

@Neueregel the level of free-will being linked to brain-to-mass ratio is what I wonder about. I am curious where the grounds for this claim lay, barring insisting that it is so; and how this would imply that a savage child with the same brain sizes as our own would lack this free-will. I really think that is the crux of the problem here .... what gives free-will to begin with? And how to reason to that conclusion?

[Neueregel]

@CharlieUlivarri Hey. The level of Free Will in a given being, is proportional to the level of Consciousness. The level of Consciousness(as a brain by-product) is proportional to the correspondent brain-to-mass ratio (the highest is in humans, about 1over 50 or 1 over 70). We are entitled to be mentally superior than any animal, because our human-DNA give instructions to create that extremely high 'brain-to-mass' ratio.

[CharlieUlivarri]

@Neueregel that seems like an arbitrary standard. essential you said that the difference between humans and other animals is that other animals are not human, and then attached an inferior standard to them. not to say you are right or wrong, but I am curious about how you reasoned to that and also how it pertains to the idea of free-will.. that also does not address the savage child as mentioned.

[Neueregel]

@CharlieUlivarri The line drawn between humans and animals is that animals don't possess a human-DNA therefore their mental capabilities are inferior.

[420HoLLyWooD420]

@ProfessorHansen Im sorry I didn't mean to offend. I watch you guys alot and I am a big fan. Just tried to get a top comment. :P

[ProfessorHansen]

@420HoLLyWooD420 It's nice to know that when someone is new to YouTube and still struggling to determine his video presence, an experienced user like you will step up and spit in his face and kick him in the nuts. Thanks for the constructive criticism; I'll be sure to return the favor. But you are right about Professoranton.

[tonyfalca]

the three kinds of organisms thing is interesting as hell