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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2023
- In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Kevin Mitchell about the evolutionary story of free will. They discuss why biology and genetics help understand free will, different levels of determinism, reacting vs. choosing at the cellular level, and choice with ion channels in the cell. They also discuss dimensions of free will, vision and choice, decision making at cortical levels of the brain, creativity, and metacognition. They engage on personality theories, notion of the self, AI and free will, and many more topics.
Kevin Mitchell is an Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He has his BA in Genetics from Trinity College Dublin and his PhD in Neurobiology from the University of California at Berkeley. His current research focuses on genetics and wiring of the brain specifically as it relates to neuropsychiatric disorders. He is the author of Innate: How the wiring of our brains shapes who we are and his latest book, Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
Website: www.kjmitchell.com/
Blog: www.wiringthebrain.com/
Twitter: @wiringthebrain
I am always amazed when people list evidence for something that I see as evidence for exactly the opposite. All I heard was how is not physically possible to have free will, regardless of the level you are looking at.
But much enjoyed the conversation!
exactly. they kept describing the mechanics of an individual being and its environment. i see no conceptual difference between "primitive agency" and decisions of the human brain. in either case, the being is responding to its environment; there is no emergent entity in that process--yet they both kept trying to grasp onto agency. the only agency is the volitional response of the entity to the environmental stimulus. the brain and nervous system are part of that process, but are not functions of an invisible entity. smdh.
I enjoy effort here but lost in details. Missing is Nietzsche’s: nature has a will to own space. Why do apex predators not breed in captivity vs. domesticated sheep & cows. Why does “free will” matter in light of ugliness vs. beauty?
Kevin Mitchell is yet another part of what he should prove. In 13:18 he simply states that there is agency and that free will evolved from this initial agency. He thinks he can say that living beings are the cause of changes in the world and everything can be resolved!! Well, that's easy. You don't even have to be very smart to talk freely in the direction of free will and moral responsibility and all that stuff.
such a silly conversation: "moving from an organism not just reacting from one thing to do...to multiple cues...and multiple behaviors" -- more information does not equate to free will. smdh.