Terence McKenna - Free will vs Determinism

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[dylanmehrer]

Indeterminism is different than free will. Indeterminism just means that some events happen randomly. A randomly occurring event still takes place outside of the human will. Even if truly random events do occur, they are imposed upon us by the outside world, not generated from within. Both determinism and indeterminism are incompatible with free will.

[chrisw]

I never liked it when people call something a persistent illusion, doesn’t the very act of something being persistent over time make it not an illusion. The only difference I see between illusion and non illusion is wether it lasts over time and wether it can be perceived by multiple people

[ezequielgaribay]

3:12 Does that sound like Elon Musk's voice to anyone else?

[EntropyAcolyte]

Nice, I download Lorenzo's podcasts, glad you included the podcast where you took this from, thanks

[daithiocinnsealach]

It would have been so nice IF terrence had been around in our time. Interacting with the popular thinkers of today. Or maybe not. Maybe it's better that he never got involved and that we have him there.

[TechWeLove]

Free-will exists in my opinion, in a spectrum. God has the most Free-Will, and the simplest organism has the least. Free-Will is the ability to choose what actions you do, if you have the power to do so, and the drive or motivation to do so, and creativity power to think of an action. If I held you against the wall, I am enforcing my will upon you, but that doesn't restrict you completely from choosing options from your own free-will capacity, to remove my force against you. If you are a baby you might appeal to my gentler nature by crying, or other similar acts, and if you're an adult you might weigh whether you can remove yourself from the situation by force, by persuasion, or by a combination of both.

[nandkudasai]

Too bad he didn't met Stella and Bunny.
But nice he is smart enough to say that they didn't knew for sure.

[gideonwaxfarb]

@2:10 - There is no evidence as to the existence of such a thing outside of our feeling that it exists (guess what other claim uses a "feeling" as a basis for believing something exists?)