Comments by "Intro" (@VCE4) on "Neuroscientist: How To Escape The Rat Race | Robert Sapolsky" video.

  1. We live longer because of technological and scientific progress (especially in medical fields).
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  2. The catchy "free will doesn't exist" title doing it's work by gathering people attention. But it also leads to faulty assumption that free will is an actual thing and Robert just sitting there trying to proof it isn't. But it is not the case You can't proof that something don't exist. Instead you must proof that something exist in the first place, to do discussion about it. This is literally how science works. And this is the case with "free will". We just don't have scientific proofs that it exist in the first place. What people commonly refer as "free will" (ability to make choices, self-control, consciousness, awareness, etc) is just another consequences of how our brains work. And they work by the same rules as the rest of the physical world.
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  3. And where do you think your "choices" and thoughts come from? What make you choose something or think something? What made you think that you think you choose something?
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  4. And those 2 Sapolkies do not contradict each others by saying that.
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  5. Thanks for a video I suppose it is a kind of a recent interview? It wasn't recorded in a cascade of interviews Robert did after he published Determined?
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  6.  @HarryBuxley  then it probably should just be called "will". The "free" part there is misleading and causes a lot of problems of various scale.
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  7. I mean, good couch is still a good couch
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  8. Why it wouldn't be deterministic? How it couldn't be deterministic?
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  9. Heh.. I wish I could live long enough to see this. We really would look like a barbarians by our descendants, aren't we?
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  10. On what?
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  11. Doesn't seem like you finished watching the video.
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  12. "Change" is just a result of stuff interacting with other stuff. Your very environment can drastically change your life, and there is no need in "free will" belief for that. What you want is also result of an environment around you. Today most people want money, career, personal house, etc. Be you a peasant in a middle ages, your most boldest wish could be a pair of sturdy boots.
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  13. What is free will in your definition then?
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  14.  @TheLudwigWan  they don't contradict each other. His definition of "free will" is when a person decides to do something completely free out it's own history. Not caused by what's is happening in our brains at the moment and what has happened before that brains become like this in this very moment. We making decisions all the time but they are just as determined as, let's say, an emotional response when you look at your mother or your child.
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  15.  @TheLudwigWan  your ability to suppress an emotional response of limbic system of the brain is just a function of your prefrontal cortex. Your perception of a "choice" is an illusion that we evolved into. Nor you can always suppress emotional response, nor you are always aware of that suppression. Nor I ever said that people are driven only by an instincts.
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  16. We are not conscious contributors. We are conscious observers.
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