Free Will Explained by the World's Top Intellectuals
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 269 minutes
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| 0:27.9 | Free will is a representation in the system that it's made a decision, |
| 0:32.7 | and the decision is being made on the best understanding of what's correct. |
| 0:37.0 | The dynamics that break up that undifferentiated ocean of potential cells into one, two, or three or more, |
| 0:43.0 | it can go different ways out of this ocean of potentiality, these cells, you know, 50,000 |
| 0:47.7 | cells, and each of them will have specific goals. |
| 0:50.0 | Objectivists say that these probabilities are pointing to some real thing in the world. There is some real |
| 0:56.1 | random generator in the world. And subjectivists say, no, these are just degrees of beliefs. |
| 1:02.4 | What is free will? How is it different than agency? What constitutes a willful and an unwilful action? |
| 1:08.8 | How do you define yourself as separate from the world |
| 1:10.9 | in order for you to even say that you act on the environment? What does physics have to say |
| 1:15.0 | about all of this? And what are some of the alternatives to the classic |
| 1:18.1 | compatibilism versus libertarian notions of free will? These are questions explored today by |
| 1:22.9 | the approximately 25 or so guests of theories of everything. For those of you who are |
| 1:27.0 | new to this channel, my name is Kurt Jaimungle, and what we usually do is explore theories of everything in the physics sense from a mathematical perspective. |
| 1:35.3 | However, this is also a philosophical channel, investigating the fundamental laws, whatever they may be. |
| 1:40.3 | You can think of it as an analysis from multiple perspectives on the largest looming |
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