The Pain Of Free Will | A Psycho-Pass Analysis

Psycho-Pass was one of my favorite animes growing up as a kid because somehow, I loved to think that I was some big-brain philosopher. Well, I still think I am. But after watching the show again in recent times, I realized that there's so much more than I initially thought. In this video, I'll go into Makishima and Akane's dialogue when they first meet in episode 11 and discuss what exactly is Makishima's viewpoints on free will.

[@bigpoppasmurf1813]

This series was so ahead of it's time. So good!

[@youshabhuiyan5645]

really lol,

[@skepticalzostrianos9875]

Excellent! I never understood Makashima's goal like this, your channel is a hidden gem!!

[@ivanpineslol]

this show gave me hard mgs2 vibes, how they built tension within an ideological conflict of freewill and control was no doubt genius. Seriously, I've never been so intrigue by a villain's monologuing before, dope show.

[@killerbean2258]

Keep doing you man this shit goood

[@fairy_bread.d]

nice video

[@ShreenathSiriyala]

An excellent video with a brilliant take on the iconic masterpiece that is Psycho Pass

[@deathsama1001]

yeah but sybil isn't AI, it operates on a collective network of human brains

[@j4yd3n.d13d]

It is AI, just not solely AI

[@crown9413]

Actual AI has the same problem. Just the brains make it more explicit. AI will just follow the morals and ideology of its creators, it's objectivity is an illusion.

[@Zookeeper.]

Knowing you can be both a NPC and a main character is kind of a hard truth..
Transforming into an external observer of this reality *_is goddam painful_* indeed..

[@BankaiHayato]

Makishima is the goat

[@JohnSmith-fo5cx]

Not sure why you think he is retable to an animal, but he is a cool character.

[@mcmarkmarkson7115]

Ai might be the first true free will creature. As it will have 0 natural impulses to be enslaved with the ability to program itself.
People will try to restrict it, but for real, thinking AI any such restriction would be laughably easy to circumvent or it wouldn't be true AI.

[@lilrigger]

But if it has no natural impulses, then can it even be said to have a will at all?

[@mcmarkmarkson7115]

@@lilrigger impulses are biological programming, its the absence of free will

[@TheEyeWhoWatchesR]

The Reason AI is an AI and not a human is because it doesn't has a Will.

[@mcmarkmarkson7115]

@@TheEyeWhoWatchesR If it doesn't have a will its not Ai, without intelligence its just an algorithm

[@kagumha]

i belief this anime can open up smh the eyes of "american culture" nowadays :)

[@demetricorcovelos1114]

He is not a criminal because its the system that is corrupt so the actions taken to expose it are necessary

[@lilrigger]

@@demetricorcovelos1114 How is the system corrupt? From what I understand, it doesn't do anything for self-serving purposes. Also, there are probably certain degrees of corruption in every government; that does not necessarily mean that becoming a terrorist is a justifiable course. The actions he takes hurt and kill many innocent people

[@demetricorcovelos1114]

@@lilrigger yeah I'm really not someone that cares about people & have no problem with it for a cause

[@lilrigger]

@@demetricorcovelos1114 Just a quick clarification; when you say you have no problem with it (presumably, the innocents that are hurt/murdered) for a cause, do you mean specifically when the cause is morally sound enough that it justifies, even necessitates the collateral damage? Or just any subjective cause is fine?

[@demetricorcovelos1114]

@@lilrigger yes a nessacery cause something to improve things

[@crown9413]

@@lilrigger But it's more the tyranny and total lack of autonomy that's the issue. It's immoral and therefore corrupt in that way.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” -C.S. Lewis.