Free will and determinism - Issues and debates [A-Level Psychology]

Free will and determinism: hard determinism and soft determinism; biological, environmental and psychic determinism. The scientific emphasis on causal explanations.

0:00 Intro
1:59 The scientific emphasis on causal explanations.
4:02 Free will and determinism
7:19 Cultural bias
10:00 Talking about free will and determinism
13:10 Outro

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[Jamieswiftie]

Im doing a quick run through before p3 on monday and the last monologue made me cry so badly

[bruisedviolets]

I really enjoyed the last bit :) thanks. I think this was also useful in deepening our understanding of these concepts so we can apply it better to our course, on top of it being very interesting !

[elek_the_king]

when i first had a lesson on free will and determinism i was a free will girlie through and through. until we got given evidence. now i'm not a person who spits in the face of evidence just because it goes against what i believe, so very very unfortunately for me i now (regrettably) believe in determinism.

i tried to be all clever and ask miss 'what if i act differently because of how i grew up? i am purposely going against what is determined of me, no?' and she mentioned something called 'free won't' (i'm not really sure)

anyway that was the worst day of my life :'(

but it makes you wonder, if you found out you had no free will, what would you do with the information? would you choose to k1ll yourself (or is that really a choice?) or carry on as is? i suppose it depends about what type of life you have. i always imagine life as a tv show and 'god' is that one fella in the writers room messing everyone around for plot reasons. if your life is like a chill tv show who's to complain? but if it's like perks of being a wallflower instead and it seems that everything that has happened to you is determined then i wouldn't be very happy

like what if my life's like the truman show, or the matrix, or even something like deadpool? when the fella knows he's a character and can break the fourth wall... what would you do with this information? carry on being the character which someone else has control of or try and change things despite the futility of it all?

sorry for the rant i doubt anyone's gonna read this but, it's a levels innit so i'm procrastinating while having multiple existential crises. i'll just have to read the myth of sisyphus again and have a coffee

also if you get to the bottom of this text mr psych boost i want to thank you personally for all your fabulous videos. they're flipping amazing

[Jaakecaampbell]

damn the bit at end actually came in clutch for 16 marker on determinism this year