FREE WILL is NOT FREE

Although I always assumed that free will is something quite self-evident, at some point I had to question the reality of this assumption.

That point was when I heard my favorite contemporary thinker, Sam Harris, asserting that free will is an illusion.

Is free will really free?

Chapters:

Prologue - 00:00
Understanding free will - 01:36
Free will vs self - 03:40
Rejecting free will, will set you free - 08:29
What can we control? - 09:56

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#freewill

[metamorphosis_]

We are all essentially part of a big experiment called life. It is our moral duty to be more like the scientist and less like the guinea pig in that experiment.

[kokomanation]

I think that human interaction affects our personality and way of thinking sometimes putting great barriers to our true potential

[katiecorin]

I can't get enough of your videos . What you speak is all the thoughts I've been struggling to put into words .

Thank you .🦋

[Mystikalkatz]

it has been interesting yet challenging . the more i disover myself, it gets less overwhelming, acknowledging to thy self. thank you for the videos.

[sacredmetaphics]

I accept I am morally responsible to be a scientist or more precise a metaphysician. First as a metaphysician I do not espouse to belief or at the very least try desperately not to use the word in my vocabulary.

My synthesis of Universal Dynamics states that we are neither subject nor direct object but we are the predicate. X=y+z.

We are ONE. That's the best I can offer. Love Peace and Happiness

[maxsirius]

What I have come to believe or realize/experience, is that the subconscious mind (Determinism-Will of the Universe) is more powerful than our conscious mind (Free Will), but once we realize this fact/truth, we can actively use our conscious mind, through Askformations and to a lesser extent Affirmations and forming new and improved habits of thought and action, to "reprogram" our subconscious mind, so it is more aligned with the goals and wishes of our conscious mind, while at the same time making sure, through Introspection and Meditation, that our Free Will (conscious mind) is not opposing the Will of the Universe (subconscious mind). Meaning, that the more our subconscious mind and our conscious mind can be in harmony and cooperate with each other, the more of an effective, productive and successful Free Will we will gain/have. So, I agree with your premise that "Free Will Isn't Free." To me Free Will is a lifestyle, a philosophy or an art form and a science, all at the same time.

[smegpadoofus]

Awareness is not free will, as experience is a series of moments reflected on in the past tense.in the same way that we cannot choose the things we like, we have no real choice of the things we think only those we acknowledge .without this there is no original thought, no new ideas.with only ever one possible outcome, any decision is always a certainty. Our consciousness is just a projection we see as independently ours.it is not the cause, it is the effect.

[caricue]

I agree that there are many illusions involved in the discussion of free will. Causal determinism is the biggest one. Dan Dennett talks about intuition pumps, and determinism is one of these. Your mind takes off with thoughts of one thing causing another as if this was some hard science fact. Any "Law of Causation" you intuitively think you understand is a philosophical concept, science has no such law. When you use your memory to construct a "chain of causation", this is also an illusion. Anyone can predict last weeks weather and think themselves brilliant. Some will say that what happens in one moment completely determines what happens in the next moment, but where in nature are these magic "moments"? This is another illusion that trips up the determined determinist.

I could go on and on, but the true defining characteristic of determinists is absolute, ontological surety in their position, and when you combine this with their overarching ego, it becomes useless to try to reach them. In fact, you might conclude that they have foreclosed their own ability to exercise free will, which is kind of ironic.

[HigoWapsico]

Thank you!
I look forward to these now
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[Air]

A simple consideration which sets everything in order is that no one is free from their own 'ultimate will'. You are not free to do anything you ultimately do not 'will' to do.

[cobylyons]

This was fascinating. I have found that the more I meditate (Mindfulness/Awareness technique of following the breath), that this so-called "I" can watch the thoughts as they arise. Thus becoming less reactive.

So, is it the case that because there is no actual self, there is no one to "have" a will in the first place?

[herbzrgreen]

Sovereignty of Self is a complex process but you make it easier by sharing your research and insights. Thank you for your work! 🙏🔥💚

[diegoyotta]

You have no control of what you sense and feel: when Harris says it’s inevitable to confuse him with Stiler, that’s basically the same classification mechanism that tells you a “1” is the number one when you see it, that allows you to read this very sentence. It tells you things, it makes you “realize” things, but then you have to “think” using that information and act on it. So even though you can’t control what you experience and how you interpret it, you can control how you respond to it

[rodsimonson]

To me free will is the pathway you use to change yourself. Being aware of yourself in moments. Catching the ego in unconscious states.

[naturalisted]

Please consider doing a video on Generic Subjective Continuity, from the essay, "Death, Nothingness and Subjectivity", by Tom Clark. Sam Harris discussed it in his podcast episode "The Paradox Of Death".

[aeixo]

There may be room for free will in a seemingly deterministic universe, however, it involves invoking the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, or, "The Multiverse".

Consider, we, as a conscious entity, could not be rooted to just one universe, our experiential self, or 'soul' for lack of a better term, could be free flowing amongst all the possible outcomes of the MWI, and which branch we go down could be tied to our free will.

So, whilst it seems like the universe we inhabit from one moment to the next is deterministic, each universe collapses the wave function at a particlar point, and our conscious choice sent us to that particular branch of the multiverse (in as much as our conscious action or decision could possibly affect our trajectory)

The work by Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose shows that there may indeed by quantum action in the microtubules of the brain, this could be a way for this to take place.

[benjaminloggins]

Just a random thought to ponder. Why is it that just because something is perceived to be an illusion that it suddenly becomes less real? Why can't the illusion of reality be just as real as actual reality. If reality is a matter of perception, wouldn't that mean that the illusion is more real since it actually can be perceived.

[dlloydy]

Cool video really got me thinking 🤔. Like you I think both apply. In part through evolution/genetics however if we have zero free will how why wouldn’t we all be ‘wild’ with no means to control the controllable’s? Wouldn’t that make philosophy at the personal level insignificant?

[karl]

what if free choices in the future may cause your opinion and behaviour in the past?!

Of course you would question the reality of the assumption that free will is real. You had no choice. 😀 The philosopher William James would argue that even if someone did not believe free will is real, they will live their daily lives as if it were. From a pragmatist and existentialist perspective, it makes little difference whether free will is real or not. Neither a person's normal daily life nor society can function under the assumption that free will is not real.