I am also planning to make videos that go beyond A-level psychology, so I would be very interested to know your thoughts on what videos you'd be interested me making on the channel that would help you?👇
The last exam draws near... i want to say thank you for all your videos, they undoubtedly have helped many achieve highly with their easy to digest and immersive design. Hope the best for everyone!
Skinner may say that I no longer choose to watch your videos, my behaviour is already determined by the previous reinforcement history of them being *quality*. Thanks Tom
The best teacher. I have never payed this much attention in class before. 😂. what aren't all lecturer like this....And yes, I can argue than the word "free" in the "will" is highly exaggerated. because every choice has its cost, therefore not free. We need to find a better term.
Thank you very much 😊That’s very kind of you to say. Delighted you’ve enjoyed the video and found it engaging. Appreciate the thought with the word “free” 👍Hope you enjoy many other videos on the channel.
The reason that it is possible for us to have free will is that part of the process of human cognition applies rules of logic and mathematics, which do not strictly have to abide by any of physics (where we might assume that everything is predetermined). There are provably undetermined answers in logic and mathematics, and since human cognition can include conscious application of logic (which is not bound by physical laws) as part of a decision, including speculation about possible future outcomes of a decision which in turn can influence the decision, creating inherently nondeterministic self-referential thought, there is more than enough room in this indeterminacy for genuinely free will.
Thanks Mark. Really appreciate the in depth comment, and thought provoking comment. How would you respond if someone asked the following: Can human cognition (which includes as you put it 'conscious application of logic') be determined by something other than 'physical laws'?
@@BearitinMIND Of course it is, because logic cannot not bound by physical laws. Logic contains things like paradoxes, whose truth value cannot be determined (the simplest example being the liar paradox), showing that certain self-reflective concepts within logic provably do not correlate with any deterministic state that might otherwise be even theoretically predicted by physical laws, even if you knew 100% of the physical state leading up to that point. Since part of reasoning involves applying logic, and particularly when that logic is being self-reflective, it is intrinsically indeterminate. This is more than enough indeterminacy in here for free will. This does not mean we do not live in a purely deterministic universe, but suggests that non-determinism is an emergent property in something as complex as cognition, which even though the organ that it operates on operates on physical laws, the concepts which can exist within cognition do not have to be deterministic.
The Determinism vs Free Will topic is so intriguing. As it entices us to look deep within ourselves and our universe to determine the real causes. So rather than thinking i had the ultimate chocie to watch your video or not just becuase my motor cortex enable me to make conscious movements , i should think deeply about the biopsychosocial causes that led me to watch it. I am a bit confused. Are you trying tell me that on the surface of it i myself has the chocie to make a decision but *myself* that makes the decision is a mere product of my genteics and upbringing? But again sir which side of the argument are you on? Do you believe in ultimate free will or are you determinist and which kind?
