Comments by "Snack Plissken" (@snackplissken8192) on "Do You Have a Free Will?" video.

  1. The initial argument is basically Laplace's Demon (short version, if an entity knows the position and velocity of every particle in the universe at a given time it can perfectly predict the future). People tend to confuse the actions of the silent right hemisphere, which gets heavy input from the body, with a lack of free will because the left hemisphere, which possesses language, lacks the right's ability to know what the other hemisphere is thinking. When the left is forced to recognize that it so often retroactively justifies the actions of the right hemisphere, it thinks that its free will has been violated because it thinks it is the entire mind since it is the only internal voice it hears. Ian McGilchrist's "The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World" explains this in great detail.
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