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In reality, I don’t think there’s any free will at all. When you look at the number of things we recognize now that are biological organic, where 500 years ago, or five years ago,...
- Yes, we have free will. No, we absolutely do not. - Big Think
Do we have free will? The question is ancient—and vexing....
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- Yes, we have free will. No, we absolutely do not. - Big Think
26 de dez. de 2023 · Do we have free will? The question is ancient—and vexing. Everyone seems to have pondered it, and many seem quite certain of the answer, which is typically either “yes” or “absolutely...
- Dennett, Bach, and Gazzaniga: Having Reasons For Action
- Pinker and Kaku: Under The Carpet of Mystery
- Sapolsky and Nye: Biting Fate’s Bullet
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“Soft determinism” is a philosophical perspective that argues determinism is true — meaning all events are causally determined — but that we still have free will, provided we reimagine the idea a bit. Under this perspective, free will is not, “I could do otherwise” (I could have chosen differently). Instead, we act freely when we act for certain re...
The more the sciences explain the world, and the more physics encroaches on the notion of uncaused and unexplained phenomena, the less room there seems to be for free will. In an entirely Newtonian world — a world fully defined by mechanical forces — there is no such thing as free will. So, if we are to salvage the idea, then we have to embrace the...
For the neurologist Robert Sapolsky, “If there’s free will, it’s in all the boring places.” If we’re happy to accept Kaku’s idea that free will exists in the indeterministic chaos-realm of quantum physics well…we’re scraping the barrel a bit. Sapolsky looks at arguments proposed by the likes of Dennett and Bach and argues, “Oh, that’s a biological ...
As you might have noticed, where you stand in the free will debate comes down to how you define free will in the first place. If free will is about giving reasons for your actions or about being morally accountable in the complicated maze of human society, then yes, we might have free will. If free will is a powerful but mysterious unknown, then th...
20 de mai. de 2011 · Big Think. 7.09M subscribers. 22K. 1.5M views 13 years ago. Michio Kaku: Why Physics Ends the Free Will Debate New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive...
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1 de jun. de 2011 · Big Think. 6.97M subscribers. 5.4K. 424K views 13 years ago. Steven Pinker: On Free Wil New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and...
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23 de abr. de 2012 · His first book, Content and Consciousness, appeared in 1969, followed by Brainstorms (1978), Elbow Room (1984), The Intentional Stance (1987), Consciousness Explained (1991), Darwin's Dangerous ...
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18 de out. de 2023 · Timothy Revell: Do you think there’s a reason why we seem so wired to think that free will does exist? Is there some evolutionary benefit to us believing that?
