The Illusion of Free Will 

Reminds me of a speech about how no matter how smart, rational, and calculated your are. At a life changing decision. You will always go with your feelings. "Everyone is a slave to their will."

This Will guy should be released immediately. We all know he did nothing wrong. He deserves freedom. #freewill

This is why I don't hold on to tension. People only think, feel, and do what they're capable of thinking, feeling, and doing. If you quietly watch people long enough, they become predictable. It's calming. And when they do what you predict, it's like a little nugget of irony and comedy. Everyone has their role. Just laugh it off and keep it moving

my favorite existential crisis channel

So basically, ignorant bliss > informed despair

I would totally listen to a podcast with you in it

"Everything that happens to you has been waiting to happen to you since the beginning of time itself." Marcus Aurelius

the ending is bascially when your friend leak a huge secret about someone's dirt to you and then expect you to still act normal around that person.

Some of us now may be suffering so immensely due to the fact that people have hurt us. We often take betrayals and ill-treatment from other people so personally and it causes deep wounds. I think an understanding of determinism can actually be very freeing rather than depressing and can heal some of the deepest wounds we have. If we understand that these people didn't know any better or couldn't actually act in the way that would have prevented our pain we can stop taking things so personally and begin to heal. Use this to free yourself from hate and bitterness you might be holding onto. It's one of the best uses of this information.

Crazy to think that 'destiny', an idea that is so engrained in us as fiction or fantasy, is actually completely true and something we all will follow.

This is where love for mankind can really come into effect where we show compassion for every singer person, including those we deem 'evil', because they just can't help themselves.

Nothing is absolute determined nor absolute free will. It's more of in-between.

This, to me, is the same as potentially finding out that we live in a simulation. It is a shock at first, but then I accept it and I realise that it makes no difference, it changes nothing for most of us in our daily lives. No matter how or why, we still exist, we still coexist. Why would we let this change us if we know that living our lives and being a good person is something we have already been doing for quite some time and that that is something that we are apparently relatively good at? Judging by everything we know, we humans, for whatever reason, are relatively good at building societies and cooperating, why would we let the societies for which we all worked, and still work, so hard to create and maintain fall apart because of something like this? I will simply continue to live my life, I will continue to be me, you will continue to be you and we will continue to be human, will continue to be we. I do not need purpose to be created for me, I can do that myself. Whether that is actually me doing it or my brain does matter, but it also does not. The same goes, or at least, I believe it should, for us all. We can create our own purpose just as we have created our own societies. Again, whether that is our brains doing this for us or not does matter, but it also does not. So, live your life, be a good person in whatever way you can and take care of yourself and others. Whether I am saying that to you or your brain does not really matter, as long as it has the desired affect.

This man is a living intellectual. His content is full of intellectual thoughts. It makes you think and analyze. Great content.

The Free Will Paradox that will make your brain literally hurt 🧠 🤯: In the third density where humanity resides in avatar form to gain experience, we often debate over free will. Most people in the spiritual community can agree that the Source occupies third density avatars, in a sense, agreeing that we are all ONE consciousness under the illusion of separation, and we are the on a quest to connect back to this Source, after we have consciously outgrown the confines of this third density experience. Perhaps, we are all the Source playing out each life experience on a separate timeline, yet simultaneously meshed. As we realize with higher dimensions, these things become possible. The Source can often become misconstrued as being a separate entity from us; one that we must be drawn to-that we connect with through higher consciousness and higher vibration in meditation or prayer. However, we must realize that the Source is us, and we are the Source. The only differentiation is, the “Source” in its highest point of consciousness, is not only aware of all people/experiences simultaneously, but has already predicted each separate life experience and each interaction between the avatars to the most minuscule degree, leaving little to no room for deviations. The consciousness occupying the avatar is just following suit to its impulses and environment interactions, as set forth in motion. The less control one feels, actually indicates a higher level of awakened consciousness, realizing how their avatar just follows one impulse after another, moment-to-moment, as their consciousness appears to follow in sync, and decision-making is just a mere illusion. While maybe we are technically making the decision, we are bound to our environmental pull, which dictates our every move. If you just follow in sync to triggers and impulses, or behave through an environmental lens, then how is this free will? Every interaction has been predestined, while under the guise of being self-aware. Yet, if every interaction was carefully orchestrated to bring about higher consciousness to allow the individuated form to awaken at a certain point-to surpass the impulse-reaction cycle, then perhaps at this point someone would become self-aware enough to graduate into free-will. 🤔 Whether, a person’s consciousness is following in sync to their avatar, or their behavior is so manipulated by their environment that their free will is compromised, makes little difference, while being two separate concepts. Perhaps there is very limited free will, like asking a child if he wants peanut butter and jelly, or soup for dinner, or if he wants to wear a blue shirt or a white shirt to church-something that will likely not trigger the butterfly effect in the grand scheme of things. And yet, the Source knew every interaction from the beginning to end, like a movie. 🎥 🍿 How is Source consciousness expanded through experience, if it was smart enough to plan the whole play out from beginning to end? Maybe, we are merely in a movie for sheer entertainment purposes. Or, the Source knew every move, and yet still lacked the experience of it, and desiring to gain the experience, breathed life into the avatars, becoming asleep 😴 during the whole play-out, all to gain the experience to match the play. 🤔 I now believe there is no one on the other side. I believe we are the Source. The Source goes through phases. It puts itself in a state of forgetfulness to then remember. The remembering part is the whole point and the fun part of all the phases. Then, the Source is all-knowing again, and this can get lonely and boring. The Source then wants to have experiences again. I think there are a thousand years of suffering in this particular cycle, and then a thousand years of bliss, and the suffering somehow creates the experience of bliss. Then it evens out into perfection and all-knowingness, being the final phase of the Source, as we all merge into ONE. Once back in this state of perfection and all-knowingness, the Source then craves imperfection and chaos, and the illusion of separation, and challenges, and creates a master-play simulation to occupy avatars again, till it wakes up and remembers everything again. I think the Source does this over and over again. It's a consciousness that constantly goes through phases. 🔄 If the Source occupies all avatars, then your consciousness is the Source, and the Source is you, but it is also everyone else, as well. You are everyone else, and you only realize this through higher consciousness as you awaken to higher states of consciousness. You are at sync with all that is and the grand scheme. So, if the Source planned your every move, and the Source is You, then you planned your every move. This would mean you have free will; you just did not have pure free will while asleep occupying your avatar in its separated form. 😴 And in an asleep and primitive state, who would want free will? This would be terrifying, leaving room to possibly forever be stuck in the dream. 🛌 And yet, you cannot reach higher consciousness without the will to break free of limiting concepts. Your will is predestined, however. Here’s where the brain hurt comes… 🧠🤯 You cannot make a free will decision and be qualified to do so, unless you are all-knowing. The Source in its perfected form of being in an all-knowing state of pure ONE consciousness-is the only point at which free will can happen. This is when the Source imagines a whole new play, where it will occupy new avatars and have new interactions-Every step planned out; every itch; every stupid word; every embarrassing moment; every “mistake;” every sneeze, etc, and then the Source goes to sleep again, purposely forgetting to then awaken at the proper time and remember again one by one in each avatar, as all the avatars merge back into the ONE consciousness. 😴 There simply is no real free will in the third density. However, because the Source occupying human avatar form is powerful but does not know if this power, the Source used this inverted power to create the whole masterpiece. It knew it would not know who it was long enough to have the experience, and the not-knowing would trigger the simulation to create chaos, more confusion, and a dystopian nightmare, and this would then dictate every move and appear to trap humanity. Yet, as this whole play unfolds, at a certain tipping point, each avatar awakens through the suffering to know its true identity. As this happens, the simulation must obey, and everything flips. 🙃 It was planned out from the beginning to use the illusion of being limited and imperfect to then create the reality that would dictate our actions, while we were asleep, appearing to be an evil way to trap humans, as we started to awaken from our deep slumber. The perfection of the masterpiece is that it tricked us into forgetting and believing we were human long enough to have the experience, and it created the whole narrative in an inverted way from our resonance that we were inferior, to then force us to follow the narrative to then find our way back to the light. As we awaken, we start to remember again. As we remember more and more, we move into a different phase-a flipped phase. We move into unity, and as we remember who we are, the simulation must reflect that. We flip chaos, confusion, challenge, scarcity, sorrow, etc, upside down. 🙃 This phase is the blissful one, where you are moving up towards the Source, and not away from the Source. To forget, is to move away. To remember, is to move forward. In this phase, we realize in third density form, there is no free will; we merely do exactly what the Source had planned for each of our life experiences from the very beginning; we merely do the will of the Source. We quit resisting and judging, and we realize there is no judgement of others, because free will is merely an illusion in the third density. Judgement of others only happens when you are convinced of free will. The Source judges no one, and the only one that judges another is someone under the illusion that they have a choice and everyone else does too. We realize that shame, fear, judgement, guilt, jealousy, greed, etc, are simulated emotions. 🖤 And that these simulated emotions feed the simulation and the simulation must respond to match the Source’s beliefs to then bring chaos, confusion, scarcity, and a dystopian nightmare, etc. This judgement, fear, shame and belief that you are also powerless, is the inverted form of what you actually are. To fall under the illusion that this is reality is to trick yourself. This begs the question: Once the veil is lifted, and humans realize that we are the Source and each other, doing the will of the Source, and all the negative simulated emotions are just a virus in the simulation, and that we are very powerful beings feeding the simulation with our resonance, then at what point do things flip? Many are there waiting. I personally think that we have to jump into unity consciousness by not seeing ourselves as individuals, but mere individuated experiences in avatars. We should then be able to jump into the higher dimension of seeing all as one. This means you can see yourself in all and you know everyone is you too. I believe in order to jump, we must sync with the master-plan; being able to see the masterpiece in its perfection and to see the positivity in it, and to remember again. When someone is on the cusp, it is very difficult to see the perfected form of the plan, but to only see the negative and restrictive programming. I believe that once we hit unity consciousness, seeing all as ONE, then we gain our super powers, being able to heal, bring the dead back to life, levitate and a host of other abilities. 😁

10:00 onwards made me smile. If the illusion helps others and provides the best way to live be aware of the illusion but embrace it

The first time I saw the title of this video, i thought it said "The Illusion of Free Wifi".

dude wtf i just found this channel and it’s like if vsauce uploaded regularly i love it

Someone told me I didn't have free will and I immediately slapped them across the face.

Thank you, now I fell powerless

"There is no free will. It doesn't exist." Starting to sound like Eren

10:55 thats what my philo tutor said. Free will was the first topic in the module, my mind was blown after that, the second week was morals and ethics, I asked him, if we don’t have free will why does all of these matter? He told me in order to properly function as a human being/student, I have to “forget”(except for exams) what was taught in the previous week and assume we all have free will lol.

I've struggled with free will vs. determination for my whole adult life. It's hard.

9:40 He does deserve praise, not because of some moral idea, but because we want to encourage more of that behavior from more people.

"It's all just RNG" -Dr. K

I never had the feeling of having free will. Since I was a kid I knew that I cannot do anything else that what I'm doing. It almost feels like you're a character in a videi game or a book or movie. You make "choices" but in reality choices are made for you and you could not have chosen anything different than what you chose. Even moral choices, like being kind or being loyal are not free choices, at least the way I feel it. I could not cheat on my boyfriend even if I wanted to. There would be something holding me back. And if I did cheat, there would be nothing I could do to stop myself at that moment. It's difficult to explain but I just don't feel like anyone had another choice than what they did, only the illusion of other choices... No matter how many times we rewind the past things are gonna play out exactly how they did...

This is a good round up that condenses the explanation down to 12 minutes.

The problem with determinism is that Heisenberg's uncertainty principle puts enough uncertainty into the whole thing, that the answer is a lot less black and white regarding free will.

Yeah I realised this some time ago and I think the best way for me is to see it as a story game: It feels like you could make decisiouns and influence what happends, when actually the whole story is already predetermined. But you can still enjoy it and experience this story. Also it feels kinda releaving in some way if that makes sense.

I like it how despite this heavy topic you were still able to end this video on a positive note, not just for the hack of it, but because it makes sense to do so.

Why are your videos so good!?!? I can’t stop watching them!!

Then when our choices are affected by other people, friends or parents for example telling us what we should do which may not be what we was actually planning to do and end up doing what they told us to do, doesn't this mean our choices weren't actually all written from the beginning?

The whole thing about decisions being readable in the subconscious 300ms before we "actually" make them is one I've heard before and I don't buy it as evidence against free will: Perhaps the act of making a choice is free, but it isn't instantaneous --- it just takes 300ms to "complete", and the MRI is just able to detect the start of the process

Great video. Aperture and The Exoplanets Channel are my favorite channels!!

People will still praise people who help others and punish people who others because, this is how we encourage people to do the actions we want them to do.

This is The Best video on free will I've ever seen. Exceptionally well done.

1:50 why have I never thought of cutting a banana like that

It doesn't matter too much if we have free will or not. Regardless of whether a decision is truly our own, the impact of that decision would carry the same amount of weight. When you make a choice, whether you have control or not, you and those around you will still be impacted. That's my mindset to keep me getting bumbed out when I think about the concept of free will being an illusion

Being pre-determined to enjoy your videos I like that!

Loved the message at the end.

This hurts my brain in such a good way lol

A lot of people need to see this, thank you.

That video is spot on. Great work!

Since I gave up believing in free will my life has become immensely more settled. I no longer rally against things that go wrong and say "why did that happen" or "who's fault was that". I just deal with it and much more effectively so. Even better, the things that go great in my life I now cherish as a gift, where as in the past I would have been so busy trying to control everything that I might not have noticed the good things when they happened. So that has been my experience. Cheers Pete

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism. The way you play it is free will.

Maybe everything is predetermined, but we simply can’t afford to live based on this idea.

I like that a video like this exists. I stoped caring about everything but i still do what I'm supposed to do in every day life because either way nothing matters. Humanity in itself doesn't produce anything new we just do what nature wants us to do.No man can see whats infront of him because he is blinded by his own eyes, i came up with that thought awhile ago and have been following the topic ever since, I'm always wondering what the next step in evolution would be.

My brother had bad anger issues and temper for many years, then discovered a brain tumor that was successfully removed. Not one anger episode since it was removed. Wild!

Would you consider your subconscious as yourself? If you do then that is still you making the decision.

As someone who has studied neuropsychological here are my thoughts on the subject. Thoughts are not always a choice. All animals have chemicals that create automatic response to stimulus like “fight or flight” however are choice after those stimulus or maybe even before are our own. Example being that the doctor with the tumor who started having thoughts of pedophilia, he may not have been able to control the thought of hurting a child but he had the choice to act on those thoughts. He could of had the thought and immediately sought help, told a therapist particularly someone with a medical background should of know that something wasn’t right. I have ADHD and can be prone to thoughts of violence as a result of emotional stimulus I may not always be able to control the thought of punching the kid whose kicking my seat on the plane however I am in control of what I do with those thoughts. I may have to meditate before I get in a situation that will anger me of course I may have to walk away. Everyone is capable of neuro plasticity we can change our automatic response to things with time and practice and unfortunately accountability. If their is no accountability their is no reinforcement to change if we just succumb to the idea that we as people are just are genetics we would of never evolved to what we are now and what we can be. An it really undermines people who have gotten better from treatment despite background and history. Is it much hard for some then others absolutely.. is it impossible for anyone no.

If we don’t truly have free will, then we need to hold strong attitudes because attitudes will have the strongest effect on our behaviour. If our attitude, an attitude that we truly accept within ourselves, is that we must be productive (for example), we will act in that way. Hold strong attitudes! Strong attitudes like “I will not let negative emotions affect me for longer than a few seconds until I take my attention off the emotion” will help you in many ways.

Aperture, you're the best person ever. I freaking love you man please never stop sharing these videos😭

It's a Fallacy of False Dilemma to say that people either have free will, or they don't. Because such an idea excludes a third possibility of having some free will within constraints and limitations. When you exclude this third possibility without any justification or explanation, then this is a mistake in thinking and in logic. And this is a mistake this video makes. People are limited and constrained by their biological and psychological needs and wants. But within these constraints, people have some freedom of choice. When I make a conscious choice whether to eat a banana or an apple, then I choose between my feelings about the banana and the apple. So, I need to become aware of my feelings, before I can make my choice. And if you can measure my feelings faster than I can become aware of them, then you can predict my choice from these feelings. But this doesn't mean that I have no free will. It just means that I think with my feelings, and my brain processing is slow enough that you can measure my feelings faster with electronic equipment, than my brain can measure these feelings and become aware of them. This is evidence of slow information processing in the brain, rather than evidence for determinism and lack of free will.

Great video, the end really eases the mind from exploding

Incredible video, i wish i had friends to talk to about these subjects

We are all willing to believe the lies that keep us sane. Accepting reality is too mentally stressful for people to cope. That's why we pretend to have morals to each other and ourselves when we accept cruel actions instead all the time. The entire world is a joke. I just have to figure out how to not care anymore.

I think about this all the time. Im only 10 seconds into the video but i always think about how if an advanced life existed near us they would view our 'free will' the same as we view a rock rolling down a slope. Predictable.

So, Free will might not exist and we have to ignore it in order to live like the way of illusionism. Like the description In 10:01 "Although free will is an illusion, it's one that we must keep up with. Because faced with the choice between truth and good, it benefits most of us to always choose good. That's because truth can change everything upside down (including morality) of what we've known." Also In 6:41 " Desire, much like choice, comes from the subconscious. So a conscious effort to shape your subconscious is actually a subconscious effort to change your subconscious." Also like that part where Aperture tried to make us forget about everything he said in past ten minutes in order to avoid confusion 10:48

10:19 Nobody denies that various external factors influence a persons place in life. The debate is weather or not a person’s environment plus their chemistry fully predetermine their behavior.

"Forget everything I said. Act like every decision is yours completely." So subconsciously you make a conscious choice about a subconscious choice? Love the paradoxes that really help me change my conscious, subconsciously. :) keep up the amazing videos! Side note. Not everyone that sees the title will click on it because only those that are subconsciously ready will click. All hail the simulation.

" Free will " is an oxymoron.. "Where there's will there's no freedom and where there's freedom there's no will" ~ Swami Vivekananda

5:28 So, that they won’t reoffend. There’s no point in punishment for punishment sake.

your video is mind blowing, thank you.

I've discussed this with my dad before randomly and we both just agreed that we have free will within our physical limitations. (I know that technically means it's not free will but it is, because you can't control the cards you're dealt but you can play that hand of cards however you choose within those restraints.

Looks like a very good summary of ideas from philosophers, biologists and neuroscientists. More specifically - Daniel Denet (about necessity of illusion of free will)

I don’t get how people think that it’s intuitive that we have freewill. Yes, we have thoughts in our brains which cause other parts of our bodies to do things but, how do we know these thoughts are uncaused? Oftentimes, there’s an identified external cause of human actions(someone else recommending we do something, seeing an attacker running at us, smelling food, seeing a green or red light while driving, heating your alarm in the morning, attraction, love, beliefs a person holds, exedra). Physical things in people’s brains have also been linked to various behaviors. Sure, none of these things fully predetermined a humans actions alone but, how do we know that all the factors put together don’t predetermine a person’s actions? Even if no cause is identified, how do we know one doesn’t exist? It’s not like we can plan on having a thought before we have it. A thought comes to you to do something, and you don’t necessarily know what it came from but, that doesn’t prove that it came from nowhere. Just as you could hear a sound and not know what caused it but, that doesn’t mean the sound is uncaused. However, it’s my understanding that theories in quantum physics predict that nothing is predetermined, conscious or not.

The notion of free will is a cornerstone of our societal fabric, forming the bedrock of our judicial systems, our moral compasses, and our personal identities. Yet, upon careful inspection, this idea begins to unravel, revealing itself as an illusion supported by societal and religious dogma. To comprehend the predetermination of all things and the unalterable nature of our existence is to initiate a profound personal transformation. Understanding that our lives are not orchestrated by an autonomous will but are products of an intricate web of cause and effect brings about a seismic shift in perspective. This awareness imbues our perceptions about ourselves, others, and our surroundings with a newfound sobriety, diluting the significance we assign to our opinions. As a result, the fervor of our attachments, regrets, blames, complaints, criticism, self-punishment, pride, guilt, and shame begin to ebb. The fire of discontent fuelled by the illusion of free will starts to wane, and with it, our self-righteousness and egotistical separation from others. Indeed, our actions are not entirely bereft of deliberation. There is a process of computation that we label 'decision-making.' Our biological computer, the brain, calculates based on its inherent programming, processing capabilities, and the information it receives. However, this calculation always aims to generate the 'best' result, and we are invariably predisposed to select this 'best' option. Consequently, every action and decision is predestined, arising not from a mythical free will but from an inevitable chain of cause and effect. The illusion of free will stems from our ignorance of the result of this computation. We operate under the misconception that the ability to make decisions equates to free will, disregarding the predetermined nature of these 'choices.' An intriguing question then arises: if we were already privy to the outcome of this calculation, would there still be a need for the computation process? As social creatures, we exist within a society, regulated by its rules and laws. For centuries, these societal norms have guided our behaviors, often punishing those who deviate. Our societal belief in free will is a prime example of this phenomenon. Despite personal realizations about the illusory nature of free will, societal systems continue to operate on the presumption of its existence. They reward or punish us based on our perceived ability to exercise our 'free will' effectively, reinforcing the myth of free will. Religion also plays a vital role in perpetuating the illusion of free will. The Bible, for instance, centers on the concept of free will, embodying it in its teachings about sin, guilt, reward, and punishment. It is interesting to note that all American presidents over the past two centuries have identified as Christians, revealing the influential role of biblical beliefs in shaping societal norms and regulations. Despite individual insights and personal beliefs, we remain tethered to these societal constructs, subject to the societal conditioning that has been a part of our cultural heritage for thousands of years.

bro more shower thoughts,love that series

4:59 Some people don't have free will, and all people's free will is somewhat limited, but most people still have some degree of free will. That means our thoughts and actions aren't just chemical reactions of outside events. Saying that some people don't have free will on some issues means that free will doesn't exist at all isn't a logical conclusion, it's like saying everyone is sick because some people are sick and nobody is perfectly healthy.

Liber from latin, for them it meant liberty and book, (libro in italian) they associated the two words because they understood that knowledge is what makes you conscious, and consciousness is what makes you understand that you are controlled by your subconscious, then trough this process of understanding you start to see the situations from an higher point of view, so you can see and you know why you were about to take a decision, you understand why you are tend to take one specific decision, and you are able to control yourself more and be free. But, if you are able to control your decision, are you really controlling your decisions? Or is your knowledge that is controlling you? And you are just going to have a better life thanks to your healtier subconscious? In any case, knowledge is the key to a better life. Ps: I’m from italy, so if I made mistakes, sorry.

Excellent!!!

*You took away my free will by giving me a choice to continue living in that thought.*

"Police officer, I have a tumor in my brain that's why I acted that way" The police officer: 👁👄👁

"Your brain makes the decision for you"??? 😆🤣🤣 Your brain IS a part of you.

THANK YOU

I always get chills when watching Ur videos, keep up the good work ❤️

Edit- I'm not being a hater and do not spread hate please I repeat do not spread hate in the comments please 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Now after watching this, I'm questioning myself about the reality of Life I regret making the decision to watch this video cause even though I like questions and questioning, I just hate this sort of philosophical things that makes me question my own existence, morality,decisions, what's real what's not and life By the way I'm not being a hater by saying all this I'm just presenting my opinion Have a great day

Thank you so much for this video. I been saying this my entire life and arguing with people..

Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up drinking.

This sounds like we're constantly on autopilot

In a way, I've already thought about this, but instead of feeling helpless, it made me more curious as to what the purpose of life really is. Why are we all here? What is supposed to be accomplished? I'm fine with the fact I have no choice in my decisions because at the very least my brain doesn't tell me to do horrible things. You've put some of what I've thought into much more understandable words.

It's funny how anything can be taken as a fact aslong as it's masked with the word "science" and preceded with the phrase "accordingly to this research".

This poses a different set of question: Where does the subconscious end and you begin? Is the subconscious part of you and are its decisions your own?

Just add butterfly effect to this concept. Our actions are also determined by millions of other events that occurred before we made a decision. Thanks for such enlightening, scary yet much needed video.

Free will in a world of controlled choices. If you like something you cant always get it and if you dont like something you cant always just will it away. There never was free will.

At the most fundamental, atomic level, we are simply the sum of the molecular composition of our bodies and the way these molecules interact with the environment. Since we lack the ability to perfectly describe and predict the behaviour of these molecules, we have to invoke philosophical concepts like free will and morality for practical purposes, not because free will and morality are fundamental features of the universe.

This is why i love the concept of alternate realities or parallel universes because its the only alternative i can think of that allows the possibility of free will being true. Every time something changes or a choice is made we jump into an alternate reality where everything’s the same except that one thing.

No, false, all it proves is that the brain (which for all intents and purposes is you) simulates the action before you do it. Before you speak to someone, you simulate your words in your head before you speak. Your brain activity just shows that you're thinking, that you're thinking about speaking, and that you're selecting the order of the words you're going to use. Nowhere does that suggest that you aren't the one deciding what to say or not choosing the order. This is useful because while climbing a tree you have to look at the tree and then your brain simulates you climbing the tree and simulating the path. You already know you want to climb a tree, you're selecting which tree to climb and you are simulating the path, which often times you have to deviate a little bit. As you climb you look up and you further simulate the possibilities of what you can do to continue climbing. We have free will, the fallacy is you are separating your brain from 'you' which is impossible because your consciousness and subconscious are linked, they are both you.

Investing your time and effort in activities and investments that will yield a profitable return in the future is what we should be aiming for.

Guilt is a flawed concept. No one is ever guilty of anything they do.

Bro broke down all my sense of existence and told me to forget about it

When someone says "we don't have free wil"l, most people think they're saying "you can't do whatever you want", when the reality is that we can *only* do what we want. We are forced to only to do what we want. This is what making a decision means. But we don't control what we want. Our wants and desires are not something we choose ourselves. So if we are limited to literally only do what we want, but we don't control what we want, where is the free will?

I don’t agree with determinism since it is possible for events to have been different, for example quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics scared many physicists because it meant that the universe didn’t run like clockwork and that they could never predict the future with complete accuracy. With that in mind I still don’t believe we have free will since what we call “I” is ultimately not in control of its decisions, it doesn’t matter if quantum mechanics is random it still doesn’t mean we have the ability to choose our decisions it was still determined by forces outside our control. Many physicists are trying to show that quantum events occur in the brain, as if that proves free will. Even if the processes in our brain were random it would just mean that they are random not that we are free or in control. Although it has also been argued that our sense of self is another illusion and therefore the very idea of free will is impossible. Also great video, another mind bending philosophy is philosophical skepticism in the vein of the Phyrronians, Descartes, and Hume.

This didn’t depress me it opened my mind

WONDERFUL VIDEO!!!

This video helped me a lot for my philosophy dissertation 😭😭

Based on Carl Jung’s concept of the self, we could instead think of it like we are a combination of our conscious brain (the 5% of the brain that interacts directly with the environment, otherwise known as the ego) and the subconscious or “shadow”, the other 95% of our brain that is less knowable but still interacts with the ego. Our “self” is not just our conscious brain, but is instead all the many parts of the brain that govern our thoughts, feelings and actions. So free will may be a myth, but will is not.

One of your best videos so far, super informative and engaging!

Good stuff. I broke down this to interactions between humans.

This is word salad, free will is making a choice. If you don't think you can change think again.