Jacque Fresco - Free Will - Nov. 2, 2010

A portion of Fresco lecture on free will, from 2010-11 Lecture Series 3.

[CristianKirk]

Thank you Jacque for saving my life...

[XstringXsamurai]

My wife and I were watching a documentary on body modification, and this guy had little magnets implanted in his fingertips and forearms and other parts of his body. Over time he has developed a 6th sense of being able to feel magnetic fields and frequencies. His body has begun to tune in to this new sensory connection. Pretty interesting.

[njhbeats]

Thanks Jacque, you make it so easy to understand

[star-stuff]

That's extremely enlightening! Glad I watched it.

[philipz]

We call for a straightforward approach to the redesign of a culture, in which the age-old inadequacies of war, poverty, hunger, debt, environmental degradation and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but totally unacceptable.

The Venus Project is a veritable blueprint for the genesis of a new world civilization, one that is based on human concern and environmental reclamation. One fundamental premise is that we work towards having all of the Earth’s resources as the common heritage of all the world’s people. Anything less will simply result in a continuation of the same catalog of problems inherent in the present system.

[GeorgeTVP]

@MrIzzy In other words, the decision to protect yourself by shooting someone, even if the conflict is a minor one, was made one someone bullied you or called you names. A person who was never bullied or was raised in an environment where conflicts were resolved by discussion will find it really difficult to pull out a gun and shoot someone in the face. Our society finds violence entertaining and normal..and it is to them. But what kind of society do people wish to live in. People reflect culture

[TheVenusProjectGlobal]

@GCGiorn not true, every step you take is forced by your background. It's never a choice. Fresco had a particular set of circumstances that drove him toward physical sciences, engineering, human behavior, etc.

[hriscucristianioan]

I know that free will Doesn't Exist ... is just a number of information given to us to Process it then give results , I wished to meet you in this life ... but the meeting is not lost, good life to all 🙃

[chadinterrupted]

@GCGiorn I can only speak for myself but I'm in a very similar situation Fresco was in maybe when he was my age so I think I can answer your questions about why he "chose" to seek knowledge. The reason I follow in this same path is through pleasure. I want to live in an environment that is easy to survive in because it is more pleasurable than living in a cave somewhere. I was exposed to things that helped me realize the power of the scientific method, therefor I follow it.

[SorenK]

I get that our choices are determined by our environment, but what determines the environment in-itself?

[timonsanchez]

How many do we need to follow the examples of TVP and what subjects do we need to study to make it possible? don't wanna wait no more, he died years ago now, he turns in his grave we didnt do anything yet with this.. how can we watch this and continue talk? not do? what is the DO, and what to do?

[gt]

There's a difference between ''a force'' and ''being forced''.

[enlighteneveryone]

@GeorgeTVP Yeah. it's very important to have his more influential videos be at the front. It allows people to feel more attracted to the project. Most of the volume seems to be on Youtube. And we all know about Youtube... people will watch, and forget (it's like a natural thing + experiences of personal life). But with people directly going to the website, they get the same vibe but probably more because they're actually at the site they long heard about.

[timonsanchez]

How do i reference to this ? as in an essay ?

[lIIIIlllllIIIllI]

Por favor, seria alguien tan amable de subtitularlo al castellano?:)

[andrewlilley]

I think this man was a true asset to mankind, however, I find his simplistic ideas that we are a product solely of our environment incomprehensible, we are not, these circumstances may have a profound influence on how we turn out, but to think that if only everyone had the right start in life there would be no crimes committed is ludicrous, human beings are far more complex than that!
We would always have the psychopath, for instance, these people are entirely uninfluenced by their environment or upbringing, and these types would be wolves among sheep in Fresco's society, and that's just one example of why his utopian ideas would never work!

[necridos]

@6XstringXsamurai What documentary is this? This sounds cool

[Ramiromasters]

@bluntpunk83 As humans we enjoy multiple systems but still that does not count as free will.
If you chose not to avoid yellow, then its obvious that your conditioning to suppress that feeling was bigger than the one from avoiding him.
Think about this, guy from a generation of doctors about to graduate, last day he quits and become a car salesman, just to prove he has free will, would that be proof of free will? or was he a slave of his emotions to prove his point?

[GeorgeTVP]

Joel, could you recommend the web developer of the Venus Project website to have these videos in the front page? I think some people don't know about these videos on youtube.

[GeorgeTVP]

This was just what I needed. I had my professor tell me that there is a difference between a psychopath and nazi soldier who murders jews. He said a nazi murderer is due to their moral values and a psychopath "there's a medical definition". He said the same thing when I said Dick Cheney was a psychopath.