I never understand why theists like Andrew think their belief in God makes sense of things like morality free-will. Apparently God is a brute fact or necessary, but other metaphysics can’t be?

Simply speaking, asking "does consciousness explain what it is like to see the sunset" is a linguistic puzzle, not a scientific one. Literally speaking, it is painfully obvious. If you are not conscious and awake and looking at the sunset, you cannot see it. Anything more than that is simple self-inflicted linguistic confusion.

The "hard problem" is a fallacy, bros. It's just your silly materialist paradigm taken to its conclusion.

Chomsky is a giant giant ...brilliant and down to earth, must be frustrating for him being so easily misunderstood.

Chomsky knows exactly what you are talking about but i think you are confused about what you imagine his position to be. He has talked extensively about this question in lectures. You should watch his lecture titled Ghost in the Machine.

Chomsky is a bit vague when talking about this, but when you look up a bit more you can come across him stating some positions. One position he accepts is 'new mysterianism', that we will most likely never understand consciousness, either via science or via philosophy. Also I remember during some Q&A after a lecture of his he was asked about free will and how matter functions according to law of physics, and his response was to say that free will obviously exists, that that means we are not understanding how matter functions well enough, and that thats expected, being that we dont even understand what matter is. I remember him talking about that in several places, and saying stuff like that forces and fields are when you think about it this crazy idea that we just talk about (in allegorical terms like 'fields' and 'waves' etc), but cant really comprehend. I'm pretty sure he also accepts mysterianism about the fundamental nature of the (material) world in general.

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I don't understand what Jimbob means by concepts informing rather than causing. Seems to me like when concepts informs us, they are directly influencing our actions in some way. That would mean concepts have a causal effect. Jimbob thinks that nudging or influencing actions is not causal, but those very things are the definition of causality. For example: The concept of geometry informs us of how shapes and angles work. An architect then designs a building utilizing these concepts. If it had no causal effect, the architect's reason for designing a building based off these geometric principles has nothing to do with these concepts. The architect's understanding of these concepts guides his actions.

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You should think really hard about whether you can bridge the is/ought gap.

Great interview! I really enjoyed hearing Dr. brown’s views clearly stated. Thanks!

richard brown is The Answer. choice. Absolute Consciousness Accessed. Higher Order Acknowledged.

Just can't stop lying. 80 likes, 108 dislikes btw.

I had the same thought, Michel Foucault and Thomas Riddle are very alike.

I'd ask jimbob to name 1 thing he did using his free will, & I'd bet money that thing was determined on something totally out of his control. hell, him existing was even totally out of his control. it wasn't even in his parents control. they had no control over whether they were fertile or not in order to have a child in the first place. he had no control over whether he had a mental or physical disability. I don't think he's look at the big picture. that seems to happen a lot with theists.

I noticed this a few years ago.. Joe said most of his team behind the scenes are Jewish so they obviously reach out and get other Jewish guests.. Joe Rogan is a shabbos goy

Thank you JimBob, these fools are unworthy of your time. Atheists are so dishonest, juvenile and dumb.

As a theist, I don't think there's a particular hard case AGAINST determinism. In fact, theism is most likely a certain form of determinism(GOD being the sovereign ultimate cause of all). I also don't think it leads to a necessary epistemic issue, but the only way it doesn't is THROUGH theism. Here's the argument: P1) In order for a means to be a justified means to an end there must be a rational link between the means and an end whereby the means rationally lead towards the end. P2) Epistemic tools are means to an end(epistemic end). C) There must be a rational link between the epistemic means and the epistemic goal whereby the means rationally lead towards the end P1) Under a non-rationally determined Universe there can be no rational justification between means and ends. P2) Under a deterministic epistemology there must be rational epistemic justification between means and ends. C) All true deterministic epistemology entails a rationally-determined Universe. P1) A rationally determined Universe requires, ultimately, a rational determining entity. P2) An ultimate rational determining entity can only be a rational substance. P3) We refer to rational substances as mind. C) A rationally determined Universe entails, ultimately, a determining mind.

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My concern has always been between the hyper-rationalists and the irrationalists. (These people are different sides of the same coin.). I'd put Sam Harris as part of the former, of course. I would argue that one main driver of the Germans going down the wrong path (to eventually think of Jews as the problem) is precisely (at least leading up the troubles) their reduction of reason to the instrumental/factual/conceptual. If reason is seen as simply an instrument for determining the most efficient way to a given end, it fails to acknowledge the complexity of human experience. Imagine your whole society is like this (the goal is always efficiency and practicality). There are constant pressures to always get to the bottom of things. You literally strip away the essence of everything (including the human and human experience). The human being looked at instrumentally is not much different than seeing the human as a machine. You start to ask what are the implications/consequences of this person/this group and their consequence on society instead of an intrinsic interest in that person/the people. If you are impatient and see any issue as a problem to solve, you likely have a very reductive view of reason.

The host has refuted himself by showing up for a debate. His position states that he has no control over what he thinks, says, and does. Yet, he is convinced that his uncontrolled thinking is the most accurate. Ha! Thanks anyways, Much love

Beautiful video. It is more or less the same message of buddhism or the message within the philosophy by spinoza

She Also Falsely Assumed That A Neurosurgeon Would Know Everything There Is To Know About The Brain When The Fact If The Matter Is That There Are Many Things About The Brain That Hasn't Been Figured Out Yet...

Jimbob is a troll and a waste of time.

The fact of the matter is that Jews deserve the power they hold in society

Stop noticing the overrepresentation, coincidences and influential power around this particular group of people whom we cannot criticize..... This is why groups like AIPAC, ADL, et al are toxic and quite literally prove the "conspiracy theorists" and "hateful extremists" right. As soon one notices and points out anything remotely unusual about this particular group of people, it's like the Eye of Sauron spotlights them and all the sudden every academic, activist, NGO and so called expert comes out of the woodwork attempting to portray them as some kind of dangerous criminal, smear their reputation, and have them censored/deplatformed/banned. It's like the Kanye West thing where he mentions that particular group of people's immense influence and control in the industry; and that particular group of people literally go: "Hey he publicly spoke about our power and influence so in order to prove him wrong about his assertions, let's do exactly what he accused us of by smearing his reputation, getting his business deals ruined, get his contracts canceled, and steal his money". Then of course anyone noticing the utter mind blowing irony (the chutzpah, shall we say?) of this standard response is also targeted, smeared, and meets the same fate starting the cycle over again. I mean it's _almost_ as if they're not insane hateful nutjobs but actually have a valid point.

I literally thought of 7 and shit don't know if that was luck hahaha.

The immortality hypothetical is full of contradictions at every corner, if you think of it. Immortality does not mean a potentially limitless life expectancy, it means the absolute impossibility of dying. This immortality must then be unconditional, otherwise it means that the conditions of immortality can be destroyed, and we are still mortal - unless the hypothetical hold that the conditions of immortality would themselves be indestructible, unalterable. Now something that could not be subject to any change in our universe where everything is in motion is a contradiction. (This is one example.) You may think it’s not, like Hume who believed that saying the sun will not rise tomorrow does not imply any contradiction, since you can conceive it. And that is where lies the fundamental issue: what you seems to ignore here is the epistemological framework from which Craig operates, i.e. the Objectivist epistemology and metaphysics. Objectivism hold that logic is not divorced from reality, and that if something act in contradiction to what it is (say, a woman giving birth to an elephant), it break the law of identity which is the base of logic. I would advise you to read the article "The Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy" by Leonard Peikoff (available for free online, just Google it) if you want to understand where Craig speak from. Then you will better understand why he dismissed this hypothetical, instead of accusing him of using excuse, which is an arbitrary assertion.

if you are dumb enough to debate someone on freewill you have already conceded that free will exist as you are assuming you are able to change someone else mind as if they did have free will to do so if everything is determined then debate and dialog is utterly pointless as our conclusions are forgone and trying to engage in such things just exposes you as a hypocrite with an incoherent world view that you say one thing but do something completely to the contrary of what you are saying basically you can't walk the talk and you behave as if free will exist while being boneheaded enough to try and say it doesn't

I was determined to do that.

I feel like this discussion is a great example of different goals between regular people and professional or hobbyist philosophers. Sam’s trying to offer a secular grounding for a basic ethical framework and get people to move away from viewing morality as magical thinking. Whereas Alex wants to do endless philosophising about the meaning of words and get lost in the weeds forever, which is great too. Both are absolutely valid, but most people have kids, jobs and limited time to navel gaze. Whereas professional philosophers don’t ever want a good enough moral framework cause they won’t have a job anymore. Sam’s moral philosophy won’t ever be as good as the philosopher sitting around thinking about this stuff full time, but that’s cause 99% of people don’t have that much time to obsess over the meaning of words to the point you can’t say any statements.

Analytic Philosophy was a mistake

The clip does not feature confusion so much as a challenge to the relevance of the analogy and what can be extrapolated from it. In short "what if an aesthetic was heavily preferred, would that not contradict your morality argument?" "Aesthetics are not morality." "But what if in this case aesthetics were perceived as morality?" "Then the analogy becomes fuzzy and begs more questions than it clarifies."

I was so disappointed by their discussion... They could have explored so many topics but ran in circles instead...

While i agree with Harris a lot its hard to take him seriously after he got taken in by right wing grifters and UFO scammers.

nope

People watching YT non-experts talk about moral philosophy is entertainment. A bit like watching a gibbon observing a magic trick.

Hey, I think I diagree with you quite a bit here, would you be willing to have a conversation about it, or a debate, whichever you prefer?

But does good have to objectively make us feel good? Morality is about right and wrong, not the resulting reaction of the person that does the action.

Yeah it was great to hear O'Connor criticize basically the only thing I disagree with Harris about: calling it "objective morality". I often point out we could've just as easily subjectively picked "obey the Bible" as our basis. At that point, we can objectively measure progress towards that goal. (Nearly every imaginable subjective moral goal can be objectively measured.) Yet if we call that "objective morality" it immediately results in self-contradicting absurdities. We'd have to simultaneously say it was objectively good *and* evil to own slaves according to the Bible's rules (good because it obeyed the Bible's instructions; bad because it reduced well-being). That said, even on the rest of the topic I agree with basically all of Sam's points: * well-being is a fantastic subjective moral goal * using science to figure out the best strategies for maximizing well-being will absolutely result in finding the best strategies currently available * and I'd even agree with something he said elsewhere where the way we use "morality" has always been about well-being. That's a good point, but the way we use "movie preferences" has always referred to a fairly specific thing too, yet that doesn't make them objective. Personally I'm a moral relativist, though I do need to investigate emotivism a bit (an idea O'Connor made me aware of, but I still don't know enough about it to know if I agree or disagree). Seems like the Venn diagram overlap between relativism and emotivism might be pretty high, but again I'm very unfamiliar with emotivism so maybe I'm completely wrong about that.

Studies on thousands of NDEs shows clearly that "morality" is the only thing that matter for a dying person (it doesnt matter if are just hallucinations or visions or whatever). So IS a very relevant concept. Is a concept that was taught ? encrypted in our DNA ? in a concept from an higher consciousness ? is value in the universe ?

5:15 A tree doesn't need to have a mind to "be well" or not. I think making it a point of labels suggests a scope limited to the ongoing debates over theism. There can be objective wellbeing, without there being "objective good".

I don’t know if you could say that Sam Harris’s definition of good is a tautology, because he clearly defines it as opposed from bad. And unless your saying - good is the opposite of bad and bad is the opposite of good, is a tautology in and of itself - it holds no water

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Seems you are finally starting to understand Jimbob at 31:35, but your “determination” took the conversation into another direction.

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Antisemitism???? Really Go Kick Rocks Victim

The point is that reading a holy book and taking it for absolute truth is unequivocally wrong and should not be done. Clearly morality changes over time, as Muslims right here in this comment section agree on. The claim “it has to be interpreted”. If it has to be interpreted then it cannot be taken as truth, because anyone can interpret things differently.

You debating and uploading is a free choice you made in order to convince people of the fact that rational argumentation does not exist

another win for Andrew lol christians who support lgbtq are not real christians man