“What is really going on if you are making a decision is that your brain is running a calculation, and while it is doing that, you do not know what the outcome of the calculation will be. Because if you did, you wouldn’t have to do the calculation. So, the impression of free will comes from our self-awareness, that we think about what to do, combined with our inability to predict the result of that thinking before we’re done… [but] If you lived a happy life so far using your imagined free will, by all means, please keep on doing so.”
In this video I explain why free will is incompatible with the currently known laws of nature and why the idea makes no sense anyway. However, you don’t need free will to act responsibly and to live a happy life, and I will tell you why. The reference I mentioned is here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti… #physics #science #philosophy 0:00 Intro and Content Summary 0:30 Free will as the possibility to select a future 1:21 Free will is incompatible with the laws of nature 3:02 Chaos and quantum mechanics make no difference 3:50 Free will is nonsense 4:28 Other definitions of free will 6:32 What is really going on 6:58 Reacting to a prediction is not free will 8:00 Free will is unnecessary for moral behavior 9:30 How to live without free will