Dr. Daniel Dennett — Freedom Evolves: Free Will, Determinism, and Evolution
This lecture was recorded on February 3, 2003 as part of the Distinguished Science Lecture Series hosted by Michael Shermer and presented by The Skeptics Society in California (1992–2015).
Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher and public intellectual, Dr. Dennett, drawing on evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics and philosophy, demonstrates that free will exists in a deterministic world for humans only, and that this gives us morality, meaning, and moral culpability. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original arguments that far from being an enemy of traditional explorations of freedom, morality, and meaning, the evolutionary perspective can be an indispensable ally. In Freedom Evolves, Dennett seeks to place ethics on the foundation it deserves: a realistic, naturalistic, potentially unified vision of our place in nature.
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So freaking weak… Unbelievable. Free Will exists, it's easy to show that formally, there is no need to "pretend." And this guy makes money writing about this stuff? Give me a break!
I only see positive consequences to me losing my belief in free will. I don't hate myself anymore.
Wow, this guy is a word magician. He has to prove the future is unavoidable, not that people try to avoid harm. What an idiot.
Dennett is what i call an intellectually dishonest coward or an idiot.
This isn't a new video. [edit] but great more free content
aka "i know free will doesn't exist but i will change some definitions to tell people that it does because they could do bad things otherwise" ?
Free will doesn’t exist and Dennett will deny that to purely “protect” the sheep from themselves. So, evolutionary biology breaks the laws of physics? That’s called turning yourself into a pretzel.