Do You Have a Free Will?

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You may think you have free will and can choose what you do, but this might be an illusion. Your body is made up of particles that
blindly follow the laws of physics, with every outcome already predetermined. So, you might not have any free will at all.
Is free will an illusion, or does it exist? Which philosophical camp is right?

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[mrsquackyesreally]

The dudes saying First are the real NPCs

Unironically, most of the replies on this comments are NPCs

[paulojabez]

If i am NPC, the programmer was joking

[rgz]

"Left or up or Banana"
What an inspirational quote

[ٴ]

“When you decided to watch this video instead of doing something useful"
bro is living in my walls. i have 40 assignments to do that are due in 2 days 💀

[xe-n-on]

Officer, I swear, it was established 14 billion years ago!

[BanjoeCommando]

I came here to have an existential crisis, not to be called out for not cleaning my room.

[RRGgaming]

"Left or up or BANANA" was the funniest thing I have heard in 14 billion years😂

[Crallux]

I think it all comes down to the definition of freewill. The reason why there is a philosophical debate, is because it is a human made concept. We define it as the ability to make decisions without external influence or predeterminated course of action. Freewill per say isn't measurable in nature, can't be falsified and therefor it is impossible for us to prove either side.

In the end, the subject of freewill has a similar nature as religion, it depends on what you want to believe in.

[awesomehpt]

“When you decided to watch this video instead of doing something useful” I don’t know if that burn is aimed towards us or themselves

[Hackerisitic]

"H2O molecules are not wet, but your pants are definitely wet now"

Truly one of the sentences of all time.

[Teth]

I don't see how emergence gets in the way of reductionism. Emergence is not some magical property that sufficiently complex systems gain, it's the result of simpler systems applied at large scales.

A water molecule isn't wet, water is, the "emergence" is the natural consequence of scaled interactions of water molecules, you absolutely can start at quarks and predict wetness, it's just wildly impractical to do so, the abstraction is a useful shortcut that hides the unnecessary details, it allows you to understand the world without having to simulate 100 undecillion quarks and leptons just to figure out that water wicks into some materials.

Free will appears to emerge when you abstract enough of reality away behind useful heuristics and logical shortcuts that the connection between basic physical processes and large-scale outcomes is obscured. The magic emerges as we begin to ignore reality, and disappears as we take a more complete view once more.

[baramtteok]

저는 예전부터 쿠르츠게작트의 작품들을 즐겨 보고 있는 한국 구독자인데, 이번 영상은 제가 평소에 궁금해하던 주제를 다루고 있어 너무 기분이 좋았습니다. 입자들의 상호 작용으로부터 자유 의지, 창발성에 이르기까지 서술자의 설명에 압도되었고 특히 마지막의 결론도 마음에 들었습니다. 우리에게 정말 자유 의지가 존재하건 그렇지 않건, 중요한 것은 현실을 살아가는 우리이기 때문입니다. 앞으로도 저의 엉뚱한 지적 호기심을 충족시켜 줄 쿠르츠게작트의 발전을 기원합니다.

[arvala]

Your honor, I had no control it was established 14 billion years ago

[Trattt]

A birdless video?! What timeline did I wind up in!

[eduardoeugenio]

4:20 omg I love that you guys decided to use the hat tile, the first non-repeating single tile infinite tiling of the plane. I really appreciate the silent callout to this recent piece of math <3

[phoenixboi]

8:52 'You are shaped by your decisions, and your decisions are shaped by you.' damn.

[jimmynuetron]

"At least you can choose what video comes next"
*Youtube Autoplay:*

[flicker]

"Babe wake up, Kurzgesagt just dropped another existential crisis"

[stefanienorthover]

Why did the non-free will camp look evil? This video implies that believing in free will is a sunnier outlook, but not believing in free will makes one more forgiving of others.

[noob]

I doubt I have free will, but I really don't care. Arguing what's 'real' or not is irrelevant, because "I" am just the human experience playing out in my head, which is by itself irrational and detached from reality. There is no such thing as 'blue' or 'red', only light of specific wavelengths activating receptors in specific ratios in my eye. But I still see blue and red, because they're part of the play that is my life. Whether I have free will or not is therefore an uninteresting question.