Roy Baumeister - Free Will and Decision Making

What is the relationship between free will and decision-making, the capacity of individuals to select among options or choices usually based on certain criteria?

[Zoharargov]

Love your videos, but I must point out that the volume is always terribly low which makes watching them quite problematic. Sort it out please.

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

Replace free will for consciousness and this relationship between energy, or materials in general, available to the system and the degree to which it displays consciousness, is an idea worth considering.

[T_K_R_G]

1- The universe is either eternal (uncreated), or finite

2- We know by science (well, philosophical arguments are much stronger, but this should do) that is not eternal, it is therefore finite

3- There is logical necessity, possibility, or impossibility when trying to categorize things, example: 1+1 = 2 is a logical necessity, 1+1=3 is a logical impossibility, and a unicorn or yourself is a logical possibility aka you don't have to exist

4- If the world is finite (it means that it began to exist), so then it didn't have to exist aka a logical possibility

5- Then it needs someone who's a logical necessity (therefore eternal) with a will that chooses to bring that logical possibility into reality because if that thing wasn't eternal then it would be finite then we have to ask the same question until we concede infinity which is impossible or cut off the chain with something eternal as we did right here. It also has to have a will that eternal something because if it didn't then it would a simple cause, which would therefore render the universe eternal, but the universe is not eternal, so there is a conscious will therefore God exists.

I pray that people would look at the argument and criticize me if they found it unsound

[jamesruscheinski]

Free will more than decision making, like focus and perhaps other.

[canadiansaremorons]

lots of backpaddling and misunderstanding of predeterminism here.... when the judge eats a sandwich it changes his desinty.. Oh no no that's not against free will that's just, backpaddle, backpeddle.

[jb_]

Couldn't watch this the sound was so bad and too quiet as usual. Seriously, sort it out.

[jordanv]

2:55 squirrels bury up to 10, 000 nuts in the fall to preserve food in the long run

[cvetkojovcevski]

good conversation... I think some things are just destined for us and the rest is free will .

[akshayiithyd]

Why does he want to change the conception of free will and say it exists.Clealry sef-control, concious decision making etc can exist without free will.

[BradHolkesvig]

Free will is an illusion. No one knows the future so it's impossible to make a decision based on a perceived outcome in the future. Only our Creator of all thoughts knows the future of his people so it's His will that we live by.