@foppishdilletaunt9911
“Yes I have free will; I have no choice but to have it”― Christopher Hitchens
@paulfoss5385
The question matters because it informs how we treat prisoners beyond demonstrable outcomes.
@dougcampbell7898
It's predetermined that I believe in Free Will.
@literaterose6731
I think Steve had a very salient point.
@Nightenstaff
I wish I didn't believe we all have free will -- it would make what people do a lot more bearable.
@andrewlance3898
"If life is illusion, then I am illusion, and being thus the illusion is real to me." - Conan the Cimmerian, "Queen of the Black Coast"
@erdood3235
I feel pain and experience joy, and so do others, regardless if there's free will or not
@XxThunderflamexX
My understanding of free will does not require us to be somehow causally disconnected from our past. We are still able to make choices. We do not control the mechanisms by which we make choices, but those mechanisms give us the ability to choose between future options. Those choices then influence the choices we make in the future - and so in some sense we do control how we make choices, just indirectly.
@EmeralBookwise
To me it's not a question of FREE will, but rather MY will. Whether my actions are wholly free and self-determined or merely the consequence of all the events leading up to my birth and the experiences of my life ever since, my actions are what defines me as who I am. It doesn't matter whether or not I ever could have made different choices in my life, because someone who made those different choices wouldn't be the same me I am today.
@jordansean18
This is the same response I give to "are we in a simulation" ...who cares, the answer wouldn't affect anything.
@Ironysandwich
Tell you what. You give me a coherent, exact, unambiguous and universally accepted definition of free will and I'll tell you if it exists.
@BearJoyner
I kinda love that the first Steve to talk in the video is designated "TWO" in the captions.
@BS-vx8dg
I'm with black sweatshirt Steve. That's how I've always felt about it. (Not that I chose to feel that way.)
@five-toedslothbear4051
I am actually just a large language model that is iteratively predicting the next word that I’m going to write in this sentence. In between my ears is a large neural net with a small amount of randomness, that is entirely deterministic, but pretends to be alive and simulates consciousness.
@Raven-um2wf
If free will doesn't exist I still prefer to believe I have it. I'm fully aware my choices are largely based on past experiences and bias of every possible kind and I'm ok with that. It's not being used in the service of harming others unnecessarily so it's not a problem far as anyone is concerned
@thegreatandterrible4508
Society actually should be arranged around the idea that we are not responsible for our actions. That doesn’t mean we stop punishing or rewarding, we just only punish or reward based on what will result in better outcomes for everyone going forward, not some idea that people deserve certain things. This impacts the justice system, disrupts core tenets of capitalism, healthcare, pretty much everything. If we aren't responsible for our actions, then nobody deserves any more or less.
@robertkendzie3
Whether or not human beings ever actually make conscious choices, the choices we experience all happen within very narrow bounds. We are limited creatures, and our perceived options are likewise limited. Seeing the world through this lens makes it easier for me to feel forgiveness and empathy for my fellow humans - we're all in the same predicament.
@ACEYGAMES
The free will question is probably better phrased as how much free will we have. Like events demonstrably change people, we are the result of the forces of the universe acting on us, but how much of that is by choice and how much is imposed. If the doctor tells me I should change my diet and I do, how much of that was my choice. Did I choose to go speak to the doctor and what resulted was an inevitable consequence? DId I choose after speaking to the doctor, to listen to the doctor and begin buying different foods and the resulting diet change is just the consequence of that? Did I choose to cheat when friends brought over a delicious lemon tart or did I not? What is a choice we make and what is something imposed on us? I didn't choose to get stuck in traffic, but I didn't choice to leave for work earlier either. So did I choose to get stuck in traffic? Does our free will grow as we understand the world around us and the results of our actions, or does it shrink as we learn more about how even the little things we thought were us can be linked to something in our recent or even distant past?
@carlwalker7560
I love the idea of not caring about free wiil, that the end result would be the same in either case is intriguing. Good video, Steve and Steve!
@JimFaindel