Michael Gazzaniga - Free Yet Determined and Constrained
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The fourth in a series of Gifford Lectures by Professor Michael Gazzaniga. Recorded 19 October, 2009 at the Playfair Library Hall, the University of Edinburgh.
So what does free will mean? It has become a catch-all term and means several things.
In many ways the concept is fundamental to human thought and societal institutions.
For example, our system of justice is built on the idea that we are all practical reasoners, working in a normal brain environment to produce coherent and ethical behaviours.
We are held to be personally responsible for those decisions. Questioning the core concept, free will, necessitates rethinking many cherished notions of human institutions.
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But free will must be used for the good.
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wheres the last video? But i think emergence is just a cop out, as in though, it all happens because of some 'special emergence'. And why does social aspects matter to consciousness.. if someone was alone they wouldnt really be free? Isnt the brain just a reactionary thing, inputs and outputs.. ie cause and effect with the material world?
DxsPro 2 years ago 3
This is a great lecture and, I think, a very elegant way of describing consciousness. Like one of the questioners, I don't think that emergence really escapes hard determinism, but it is an excellent point that mental states can influence brain and brain physiology. Gazzaniga uses the olfactory bulb stimulation study, but I think that a possibly more impressive argument could be made from recent studies using neurofeedback to treat ADD, ADHD, and depression.
Kvin1089 1 year ago 2