Comments by "Sergey Misik" (@Jimmy1972) on "You have no free will at all | Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky" video.

It's a shame that Sapolsky didn't bother to figure out what free will is. In a philosophical sense, this is a will that does not depend on outside influence. Of course, external circumstances influence what a person desires and subsequently does, but the range of these desires that chaotically arise in our brain is very high, and therefore the choice is very large. If there is a choice, then this is called freedom. It is clear that this is not unconditional freedom, it is limited by reality, but the scope is so wide that a person has no excuse for not turning his life into a constant creative process. You don't have to live your life like everyone else. It’s a pity that after living his life, he never understood this.
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@sjoerd1239 which ones exactly?
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@sjoerd1239 What you write is nonsense from a logical point of view. When you've already done something, you have no choice to do anything else, not because you don't have free will, but because you've already used it. You cannot drink water from a glass if you have already drunk it. Will is what lies between desire and deed. There can only be one thing, and there can be many desires to do this or that. Free will manifests itself when you choose one thing from the spectrum of your desires and do it. This is the error of Sapolsky’s logic, and yours in particular. I could not respond to your comment because it makes no sense, but I used my free will to do so, and give you a chance to see something that you have not seen before in the picture of the world. Whether you use your free will to change something in your picture of the world depends only on you, or rather, on your will. If it is not free, it is not because the person does not have it, but because the will needs to be developed. Freedom is not given to a person by default. To have freedom, you need will, and will is what motivates a person to do something. In short, develop your intellect, develop your will, and you will be on the path to obtain free will.
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@sjoerd1239 Regarding determinism, a view that manifests a abcence of free will because the world is deterministic is not scientific. Free will does not contradict the deterministic world, since consciousness is not part of the external world. Man is a free entity in a deterministic world. It's like a quantum in a state of superposition. It can be in different places at the same time while there is no observer. Likewise, a person can choose to do anything within the given reality until he does something based on his free choice. You are putting the cart before the horse.
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@sjoerd1239 I would be happy to show you an example of free will. I answered you because I have free will, but if I leave your next comment without an answer, this will also be a manifestation of free will. You have turned science into a cover for dogmatism. You are the one who is a believer, and everyone who has a different picture of the world is heretics. The world is determined and that's not what I'm arguing with. I argue with the statement that there is no free will because the world is deterministic. The world is external in relation to a person, and will and consciousness are internal, which is why the will is not bound by the world. Determinism is only a postulate about the connection between the final configuration of matter in the physical world and its causes, but consciousness, and therefore the will as it's state is not material, and therefore free from determinism.
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