183. Does Free Will Exist, and Does It Matter? | No Stupid Questions
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
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What do we do with the institution of punishment if there is no free will? If we remove punishment, would harmful activity (rape, murder, theft, etc.) increase? And if so, does that mean people are “choosing” to do harmful activity because of the lack of punishment associated with it?
Biggest benifit of understanding there is no free will is that you can accept others faults and mistakes much easier because in your mind it is a fact that they could have not done otherwise and your actions then are more based in reality therefore easier to implement in everyday life.
Imo, i see free will as a statistical probability shifter, all small discussions shift your chances of heading in the overall direction you desired. Most find this painful, and flow down the river being pushed where the world puts them. Free will exists but its not a guarantee you will change anything. Hard does not equal can't. Success is never guaranteed.
Everyone has free will; it's just that most of the time they choose not to use it...
Angela, what would you think the point of having the first kind of free will be, if you do not have an impact of the world (the second kind). I do not see how one can exist without the other. Or at least, how could the belief of free will exist if the two do not go together. Why would anyone believe in kind 1, if he doesn't believe in kind 2, and vice versa?
My own point of view is that the only time I use free will is when I'm challenging my own beliefs.
I must say I appreciate the subjects covered here but everything seems to be an opportunity for the presenters to brag about their expensive exclusive education. And starting with: I don’t even know if this Sam Harris has a PHD… it sounds quite pretentious.
First of all who cares if he has a PHD in anything and second he has an incredibly interesting education formation.
How can you talk about things you clearly don't understand? If I program a robot (auto-pilot) to not crash a plane, does it not have free will to not crash the plane into the ground but it does when it "decides" to fly around an object in the sky? Something either has free will or it doesn't. If you "decide" to eat another bag of dorritos, you are valuing pleasure receptors over longevity. It's a part of your programming that you are acting out. You didn't decide to value one over another. If you wouldn't ask a robot if it sometimes has free will, why would you ask a human? It's so dumb. No free will dismantles the biggest scam in human history: religion. Again, dumb if you have to ask the purpose of everyone finally understanding there is no free will. Dumb if you also don't know the difference between moral accountability and legal accountability. People need the threat of jail to feed into their programming. But no, no afterlife. Unfortunately, most people won't get it until they finally program a bot to act exactly like their mom and when people start screwing bots because geez, they act just like humans.
There’s currently no way to prove or disprove the hypothesis that we have no free will- not sure why so many people just throw up their hands and accept this just because a guy with a beard and some confidence says so…
Every chess game or tennis match is predetermined? Not so sure.