Comments by "" (@rstevewarmorycom) on "Do We Have Free Will? | 5 Minute Video" video.

  1. What horseshit. That's all unrelated to the problem of free will. Prediction is entirely unrelated to the problem of free will. It wouldn't matter if we knew everything or nothing, what we do is what we were always going to do because all real outcomes are unary, there is only one future, and whatever one you wind up in, that was the one that was always going to happen for you. This is also why QM uncertainty gives us no help either. Whatever happens, it was always going to happen by definition, and whether it was random or not this is still true. Multiple possible futures are not real, they are just ideas. And likewise, you are fully Determined because whatever you decide you were always going to decide, and for the same exact reasons. You can see this at work regarding "changing your mind". You don't change your mind, other circumstances do, and once changed you are no more able to change it back on a whim than you were to change it before it changed on its own. We do NOT think our own thoughts, rather our thoughts think US!! If you cannot change even the tiniest thing you truly believe, without lying and just claiming you did, then in what sense do you have any "free will"??  The thing people never get is that the very definition of the Self is that which the Self cannot change, it can't change itself. Everything that changes the Self is Other,  "outside" the Self, even later cogitation that causes us to change our mind is a mental process we have no control over. They operate on their own. We change each other, but even then, we can't help doing it to each other, what we say and do is beyond any control,  but we do not and cannot change ourselves. This is the secret definition of Self and Others. If we could decide what we think we could decide to think we were somewhere much nicer than here, and if we could decide to believe that we would believe it beyond any contradiction, and then while we were in our other psychotic world of imagination we might die or be harmed, and we wouldn't know it. This life is a movie, a thrill ride, an adventure to assuage the inherent boredom implicit in infinity.. Enjoy the ride!
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