#787 Kennon Sheldon - Freely Determined; The New Psychology of the Self, and How to Live

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RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 16th 2023.
Dr. Kennon Sheldon is Curator's Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri. His research is in the areas of well-being, motivation, self-determination theory, personality, and positive psychology. In 2002 he was a recipient of a Templeton Foundation "Positive Psychology" prize, and in 2014 received the Ed and Carol Diener award for mid-career achievement in personality psychology. He is the author of several books, the most recent one being Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About How to Live.

In this episode, we focus on Freely Determined. We talk about free will from a psychological perspective, and go through topics like the limitations and psychological effects of determinism; self-determination theory, intrinsic motivation, internal rewards, and autonomy; the role of the social environment; organismic integration theory, and how people perform behaviors they don’t like; causality orientations theory, and three free-will-relevant personality styles; levels of organization, personality, and downward causation; how people make decisions; the relationship between happiness and free will; and the symbolic self, and potential digital selves.

Time Links:
00:00 Intro
00:40 Free will from a psychological perspective
03:00 The limitations and psychological effects of determinism
09:11 What if determinism was right?
14:10 Self-determination theory, intrinsic motivation, internal rewards, and autonomy
21:47 The role of the social environment
24:57 Organismic integration theory, and how people perform behaviors they don’t like
29:20 Causality orientations theory, and three free-will-relevant personality styles
32:18 Levels of organization, personality, and downward causation
42:53 When faced with a decision, how do we call up various options, and how do we decide between them?
48:38 The relationship between happiness and free will
50:37 The symbolic self, and the possibility of digital selves
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Saying that human behavior is too complicated to predict with great accuracy is not an argument against determinism.

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Yeah 100 % correct, I wrote about creativity and its relationship with self concept and consciousness type two as a small part of self concept, …etc

[aminam]

50:30 I wrote about that in details: how self concept generates both consciousness type one and personal identity, and that it’s a process (they can’t transfer process to the cloud!), ….etc

[aminam]

It’s 100% correct they take human thoughts as a reference as many others did, some others used blunt theft and others used thievery as patching techniques (similar to car thieves who repaint the stolen cars to hide their theft crimes) and others used a mixture of both.

[aminam]

52:30 yeah yeah, it’s here, the exact same words I wrote myself many years ago.

[aminam]

Try to think: if thieves have stolen your own car that you made yourself piece by piece, would the thieves be able to convince you that it’s not your own car even if the repainted it?!
you built it, it contains your own thoughts, hard work, ….etc ?!

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44:20 consciousness type two! I wrote about that in details.

[aminam]

I have noticed that from the beginning that there’s something so dirty and stupid that attracts the irrational apes to each other, I recognised that it’s the destructive irrational meanness mixed with irrationally itself in addition to many other irrational factors.
As if human imprisoned among irrational apes (the terrible punishment)!

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53:00 Modell itself in the background (thief uses blunt theft)

[aminam]

43:00 3 years ago (that goes back to where and when they found human thoughts)

[aminam]

35:30 yeah! for sure, he he target how self concept generates personal identity, he only replaced it with symbolic self!

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49:20 personally development, try to think and connect that to self concept.

[aminam]

Since I was a little child I had that deep feeling that I am imprisoned among apes not a real humans!
I have noticed the huge difference mentally and psychologically from the beginning!
how could that happen unbelievable!
I recognised that since I was a little child (no exaggeration at all)!
it’s a terrible punishment! they are not humans for sure!

[aminam]

He has read all human thoughts no doubt, very likely they used YouTube scrapers to collect a specific thoughts that belongs to a specific YouTube account.

[aminam]

41:25 they use human thoughts as a reference then look into the old trash bins to hide their theft crimes and justify the theft!

[aminam]

I told you from the beginning that human will never make false accusations against irrational thief apes (never)

[aminam]

I didn’t watch all the video I just scan it quickly, but human can recognise his own thoughts easily even when the sick irrational thief apes steal and pollute them!

[aminam]

40:20 I told you that human will never make false accusations against the sick irrational thief apes (they use human thoughts as a reference)!

[aminam]

The curse on mankind and human civilisation!
it’s a real dilemma!

[aminam]

Try to think! Why would human make false accusations against irrational thief apes?!
is there human jealous of irrational apes?!
has human chance in apes world?!