Comments by "Pob" (@goodlookinouthomie1757) on "Free Will, Determinism, and Laplace's Demon" video.

  1. Well, it is the obligation of the physicist to address what appears to be physical reality. As such, determinism will be his logical conclusion. But no physicist will deny that for some reason we all feel as if we have free will. And as such it is best to conduct our lives as if we do.
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  2. It all hinges on whether you believe there is something metaphysical about our consciousness. If you think we are nothing more than meat machines, including our minds, then you necessarily advocate physical determinism. Nevertheless... we are left with the weird fact that we (or I at least) have an experience of it all and it absolutely feels like we are making our own decisions.
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  3. This seems to be a contradiction in so much as you're saying "I know my decisions were scripted from the beginning of time, but I still freely make my own choices". Which is fine, because I feel the same way. I can only conclude, for the sake of my own soul, that there is a transcendent aspect to my consciousness. The very thing that is facilitating the experience I'm having right now of reality and my ability to ask the question at all. I know that I have no free will, but I embrace the illusion that I do (as if I have any choice in that matter either). God this gets weird.
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  4. If you believe that there is a metaphysical aspect to consciousness then yes.
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  5. Does the Demon freely choose to perfectly observe the state of the universe?
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