Daniel Dennett lecture on "Free Will" (Edinburgh University)
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Nice pile of BS trying unnecessarily (and ineptly) to defend present socio-economic structure by saying that determinism and free will are not incompatible. Understanding that free will is an illusion is not the end of morality (or world) but a new sane beginning.
Introductory clown was marvelous.
MarkoKraguljac 23 hours ago
this is a silly argument about semantics with ZERO grounding in practicality... I'm going back to the atheist debates!
85jacob85 2 days ago
32:00 i welcome the good. and avoid the bad. just something i personally like to do
Diosukekun 3 days ago
@StreetBoi69uk I disagree, following the thought experiment of 'Laplace's demon' it should also be able to predict the ability of these evolutionary animals to avoid and therefore predict exactly when a certain animal will show this behaviour of avoiding or not.
Patatmetmayo 1 week ago
hi ho, this is kermit the frog
stankalmighty 1 week ago
@Cutufrum The 'Laplace's demon' thought experiment you are referring to is entirely hypothetical as there are far too many 'determining' factors in the world even for a 5 second prediction to occur (advocated by hard determinists) however I do believe Dennett is correct and Laplace never took into consideration the ability for evolutionary animals to avoid and therefore you will never be able to truely predict exactly what will happen in the next 5 seconds.
StreetBoi69uk 1 week ago
@Zenithteal The opposite of avoid is to "not avoid". "Seek" doesn't actually negate "avoid".... I hate the American educational system.
IndubitablyMe1988 1 week ago
isnt to seek the opposite of avoid?
Zenithteal 1 month ago
@ 37:37. SLEEPY SLEEPY.
coleus 1 month ago
Can there be free will in deterministic universe? Mr. Dennet said "yes" and declared he's going to prove it. But then he showed that this is not useful question to ask. I feel cheated!
@Cutufrum you can't get complete snapshot of the universe you're in. That would be like storing complete mirror copy of a HDD on to itself. So you cannot get into that paradox situation.
cuu508 1 month ago