Alison Gopnik - Free Will: Essence and Nature

Why is free will one of the hardest problems in philosophy? What are the core issues of free will and why do they seem to defy resolution? Most philosophers are pretty sure they have the answer-but their answers all differ!
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[@FelipeHautequestt]

I am afraid many of you did not get the message right. It was not her intention to give any philosophical argument in favor of free will. She was quite cautious in this respect and correctly avoided all metaphysical claims. Her points were empirical ones, on the psychology of free will. As I see it, from those empirical results she simply wished to derive some conceptual clarifications that can be useful later in philosophical debate. I refer, in particular, to the data that children acquire the notions of doing otherwise (against physical or epistemic constraints) and of acting against his/her own inclinations in different ages. That is all. She is not trying to make metaphysics here, folks. ;)

[@dujondunn2306]

Beliefs about free will shed no light on how we have the concept in the 1st place. It sheds no light on creativity. It sheds no light on why people take certain actions in a given situation. Furthermore, the answers given by six-year-olds is what one would expect from children with a greater ability to abstract. If the idea behind this research programme is to track how ideas of free will vary with age, then it is an interesting curiosity, but ultimately it is not shedding light on anything interesting or fundamental about free will.

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

While younger children are developing consciousness and choice, are they more or less focused on subconscious and free will?

[@_evors]

would love to see scientist: James Lovelock, inventor of Gaia Theory

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

This is an invitation to see a theory on the nature of time! In this theory we have an emergent uncertain future continuously coming into existence relative to the spontaneous absorption and emission of photon energy. Within such a process the wave particle duality of light and matter in the form of electrons is forming a blank canvas that we can interact with forming the possible into the actual! The future is unfolding with each photon electron coupling or dipole moment relative to the atoms of the periodic table and the individual wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. As part of a universal process of energy exchange that forms the ever changing world of our everyday life the ‘past’ has gone forever. At the smallest scale of this process the ‘past’ is represented by anti-matter annihilation with the symmetry between matter and anti-matter representing the symmetry between the future and the past as the future unfolds photon by photon. In such a theory the mathematics of quantum mechanics represents the physics of ‘time’ with the classical physics of Newton representing processes over a period of time, as in Newton’s differential equations. In my videos I explain how this process is relative to temperature and the phase changes of matter.

[@jamesruscheinski8602]

Is learning to walk exercising free will, while playing with toys is exercising conscious choice?

[@alexdrudigmail]

I can't say this is the most interesting "Closer To Truth" video ever

[@rosappan]

🙏🙏🙏

[@jameslovell5721]

This proves free will is a social attribution. Congratulations.

[@jurisbogdanovs1]

Free will is a very interesting topic. But these discussions for some reason aren't...

[@ShreddedASMR]

Ugh, listening to that woman talk in circles and reiterate the same bland data points incessantly gave me a migraine.

[@Mastermindyoung14]

It certain does appear that they're making choices... Because that's how illusions work. None of what she talked about touched on free will (but I blame that on her education, so it's not her choice to not articulate properly...) "I made a choice, therefore I have free will" meh, not impressed.

[@Mastermindyoung14]

Lil Phag people "want" (for lack of a better word) to be the authors of their fate, so they'll use whatever argument agrees with them, regardless of it's logical consistency

[@tcl5853]

Mastermindyoung14 : I had a choice to respond to your post. I chose to, my choice to respond was not a result of a long chain of cause and effect incidents that extended to the first, wait for it - uncaused first cause. I know, the dreaded first uncaused first cause is a real problem. Wait, I got it, there was one uncaused first cause and after that the rest is turtles all the way down.

[@tcl5853]

Lil Phag : I had a choice, as I mentioned in an earlier post, to respond to your post. I chose to respond, and my choice to respond was not a result of a long chain of cause and effect incidents that extend to the first, wait for it - uncaused first cause. I know, the dreaded uncaused first cause is a real problem. Wait, I got it, there was one uncaused first cause and after that the rest is, as the Hindus like to say about a tangentially related theme, it’s turtles all the way down after that.

[@hahalala14]

You are making an extraordinary claim that your actions are free from the casuality we observe in the universe. You need serious evidence to support this. We don't know what was before cause, or if the first cause was uncaused, we must (for now) remain agnostic in regards to everything that exist before we observe it either directly or indirectly