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It doesn't surprise me that you got a lot of bad comments, because I suspect the title draws more crackpots than skeptics. Had I not learned of it through CFI, I'd almost certainly have dismissed it as conspiracy thoery woo. It is a great title, but I suspect it doesn't serve you well in drawing a receptive audience.
Believing there is a free will or .. feeling like there is an agency or so called " i " exist is the nature i guess ..and realizing or understanding there is no free will , with science or with any other practice is " understanding the nature itself " we cant expect everyone to go that deep ..
People are scared of the truth and people love to feel they have control over their lives so it's no wonder people are going against Robert Sapolsky finally Robert Sapolsky is saying the truth which I agree with and has helped me accept myself as I've struggled with addictions and have always been interested in human behaviour and why I ended up being the type of person I became well done Robert Sapolsky
I found the Roman numerals on clocks bit interesting, so I checked internet photos of Big Ben; pretty much the uniform icon of a famous public clock with Roman numerals. I can say after checking that, at least in that case, it adheres to standard Roman numerals (IV instead of IIII). Since I have always hated dial watches, and Big Ben is the rare case of a dial clock that I have spent some time looking at, That alone makes me feel justified in perceiving that most dial clocks/watches use standard Roman numerals.
We're all in the same boat, none of us built our character but because we're all in the same boat we're all sort of equal... What are you talking about? This is so obviously untrue I don't see how you go on without retracting it. "Hey young black child whose character has been genetically, hormonally and environmentally ravaged by stress, you're in the same boat as the white child that grew up in a low stress environment and having all their needs met. Doesnt matter that the boat is stratified and you're on the bottom, all the same rules apply to you irrespective of the data because I erroneously think your suffering is the glue that hold society together "
22:24 Why are people like this? I'm watching the worms eat his brain right before my eyes. "Ok yeah, so you're a biological robot, gene sensitivity, hormone baths and environment programed you but what else can we do but punish robots for acting on their programing?" ...dude what? You throw away the entire notion of praise and punishment and use evidence based solutions that promote the wellbeing of all, including the criminal. Sapolsky has the patience of a freaking Saint.
Robert lays down the idea that all things we think, do, and say are predicated on all things leading to that moment essentially from the dawn of existence. Due to that, we have no free will as something always preexisted in the biological machine culminating in the action you do. I loved how this video covered multiple topics including the implications of a world with no free will. I was hoping that they would address additional criticism and rebuttals to Robert's idea including that we have the ability to alter the way that we will think and act by preemptively desiding how we will respond within given scenarios. I can just hear Robert repeat himself again in his original idea. It seems like he is incapable of thinking that his idea could be wrong even slightly and set up the idea to be inherently not falsifiable based on his definition of free will.
But it's not free will if you can preemptively decide how you will respond within scenarios. First, you need alot of different parts of your brain to work together for you to think about scenarios and plan what you will do. And what you will decide to do is decided by what you think is smart or right to do, which is something you get from your culture, friends, familiy, media and so on. There is no room for "free will" anywhere. Everything is decided by how your brain works and what experiences you've had in your life. There is no room for magic.
Rewards and punishments aren't administered because they are morally deserved, but rather because they are causal. They operate effectively because they stand-in for free will, causing better behavior than we get if we rely on people's "free will" choice of moral behavior. As Lao Tzu said 2,500 years ago, abandon morality and legality and just do the right thing because you already know what that is. Rightness is predetermined, not constructed from free will choices.
Brian Andrew Dunning was sentenced in August, 2014 to serve fifteen months in prison for receiving between $200,000 and $400,000 in fraudulent commissions from eBay, stated by United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson. SOURCE: UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 'S OFFICE, NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. He was convicted of wire fraud through a cookie stuffing scheme, for his company that fraudulently obtained between $200,000 and $400,000 from eBay. In August 2014, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison, followed by three years of supervision. SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA. This is the shady dreck that UFO debunkery has lowered itself to.
I guess our faith or belief is our truth then it will be what will be. Perhaps then if you’re atheist it will be the end of you when you die period. If you’re a believer you will have eternal life in heaven. If you are Hindu perhaps you’re reincarnated. If Buddhist you escape samsara and achieve nirvana. What if our belief will be our destiny.
I recently discovered you when you were a guest on a podcast. This is exactly the content I love. I love ghost hunting shows, but I sit there and debunk or criticize as I watch. I don’t believe in ghosts or demons, but I do like a good ghost story. Keep up the good work!
I find Dawkins extremely boring, shallow, with trivial arguments passed as profound insights, and strawmanning everything... Not sure what people see in his kindergarten level of thinking.
Watched old tv report of reporter talking to people who reported being abducting by aliens in the 50’s. They were abducted by beautiful women, who used them for sex.
Imagine , that when you ejaculate, only one sperm is fired out, but it has two tails a fin and night vison, kind of like a sperm drone, also i suggest eye of the tiger as the background score.
