Waking Life - Free Will and Physics

favourite scene from Waking Life.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• waking
• life
• scene
• free
• will
• physics
• quantum
• mechanics
• philosophy
• Heisenberg
• uncertainty
• principle
• rotoscopic
• david
• sosa
• richard
• linklater
• fear
• laziness
• Nobel Prize in Physics
• Quantum mechanics

[SeanNolan5]

best scene.

[alyceobvious]

"choose determinism", i always say. : )

[jbperez808]

Last 30 seconds or so... there is a "problem" only because you decided there should be one.

There's your free will in action =)

[NDUBZ08]

lmao this was mind-blowing on lsd.

[elrynx2]

@KingOfStaples

This movie is for those beyond any superficial, shallow labels. Besides, anything or anyone this movie creates is inherently that much less blameworthy. 

[spfccsmft]

@KingOfStaples I don't. How many of them have even heard of this movie, let alone seen it?

[macryan19]

ok great scene but I definitely do not want to be a gear. If in the end nothing really matters I would much rather be random objects creating infinite chaos and difference which it seems like we do anyway.

[Frankieborrego88]

one of the best films. EVER

[KingOfStaples]

I blame this movie for creating the modern hipster.

[Msumner316]

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. I say God's will and the course of the Universe is a Rube Goldberg machine. Look it up and you'll get my point.

[fede2]

if free will is understood as the conscious determination of one's actions, then there's really no conflict. consciousness is an emergent property of the brain, but it's more than it in the sense that water is more then just two molecules of hydrogen and one of oxigen.

all the material and intellectual tools of science in the world are completely usless without a prior clarification of thoughts and propositions. if you haven't decided on what free will means, you are not gonna find it.

[YaleBreaker]

@Devonfayr Not silly at all...the nature of "responsibility" is probably something we as a society need to discuss a whole lot more.

But yes, it seems we are.