Daniel Dennett Explains Consciousness and Free Will | Big Think

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This was such a hard listen, I’m convinced this man knows he’s wrong but is pushing a propaganda or better he doesn’t understand the concept of hard determinism.

why wasnt Jacque fresco or Roxanne meadows on the big think

I think most people don't have free will because they are trapped inside their perception, their ego. Therefore they cannot think from the outside perspective. They will do something just because their subjective intuition. The curse of this world is that people are too self oriented and cannot think objectively.

For those who think that making subjective decisions is exactly what free will is:
You were designed certain way, so making decisions based on your subjective experience is a natural way. When your thirsty, you'll get something to drink, It's natural. Free will is when your thirsty but you decide not to stick to your natural behaviours.
It's trivial example but I think It's easy to replace It with some everyday struggles that we all experience.

Where is the video of Daniel Dennett Quine, Consciousness and the Middle East?

This gentleman's arrogance and lack of humility in his worship of biological reductionism is cringeworthy.

I have a friend who is almost always choses to go out from a two door room on a third door and this represents his free will which has no limits and totally independent from circumstances. Sometimes he even speeks languages he'd never learned. How do you do that? I ask sometimes. He has a simple answer: free will.

Now we have free will wow.

Read the "Unendliche Geschichte" thats the way to get free!

I would enjoy listening to this man debate Jordan Peterson

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Word salad. Not clear what is his answer to people fearing of not having free will?

I have always thought that a computer is a better comparison for free will. The same way a brain is just neurons firing a computer is just 1's and 0's but the same way that we can get super complex videos or games or so on from a computer we can get conciseness from the brain. Conciseness is just a product of the brain, that's it, naturalistic no magic.

BILLIONS OF YEARS IS AS FAR OFF THE CHARTS AS SAID. Man can dig and search the stars but billions of years is rediculous when we can't fathom 1000s years we keep mistking for by all other opinions of proof and belief whether we believe or not WE ALL BELIEVE WE ARE ALIVE BE FOR WE DIE.

D.D., it appears, is allergic to nonsense.

I think that having or not having conscious actions and reactions are more flexible in that we have times in our lives in which more or perhaps all of our actions come from our automatic or subconscious minds while in other times in our lives, we have chosen what we have done for some reason. This kind of thinking takes us away from the yes or no thinking and more into percentages. Right now, how in control do you feel? Then we have to wonder which core thoughts and triggers change how much control we have.

When I allowed my bipolar mind to control all of my actions and reactions, I did this because I had an addictive relationship with dopamine. I wanted more, no matter what the thought was, and so I looked for more of it. In this part of my life, I didn't have a lot of conscious actions or reactions. It was as simple as saying that I wanted something or I wanted to do something, so I needed to do it, which can be drinking, unhealthy amounts of sex with different people, or (especially for me) feeling like a genius because I lied and won because I lied so much. There isn't a lot of consciousness in this kind of thinking.

After my TBI (traumatic brain injury), I had to relearn every single skill I now have. I learned how to be calm and learned how capable and useful I am when I am calm. I learned how to see manic thoughts and can now choose to not use that manic thought. It comes and leaves in my river of thoughts, and that's fine. The idea is that I can always choose which thoughts I want to use. I can't control the thoughts that I have, but I can always choose which ones I want to use. Every day, I have manic thoughts, and I have to choose to not use these thoughts.

There are so many stories that have similar information, in which a person had less control and then learned how to control him/herself. I think it is always a percentage.

You smart guys think you can go on and on about this , But I've already proven it A 100 times an still you deny it.
Say it can't be proven , your in denial. Hahaha

"Mundane tricks in the brain" ok what are those, this guy clearly doesn't have slightest clue

This video evokes a strong feeling of inspiration in me. Time to exert some free will

Consider the following:

[] SELF. REFLECTION

[] ME’NESS

[] I’NESS

This electrochemical organ
with its 100 plus billion neurons
are creating the illusion of ‘I’ and ‘Me’

Agree with everything. Except the part that claims our consciousness is more competent (to use his term) than that of dolphins. How can we possibly know that? That’s anthropomorphising.

I agree with most of Dr Dennett's assumptions, except the anthropocentric idea that only humans can share their wisdom and learn from their mistakes. Chimps and bonobos (our nearest relatives in the animal kingdom) also display such properties as learning, planning and sharing of information – which can be considered a basic form of wisdom (which itself is subjective based on who you ask). Unfortunately for the animals, we don't have yet invented devices that can translate their language/vocal-sounds into something meaningful from our vocabulary, so the best we can do right now is just infer the basic ideas based on observing their behaviour and interactions with their environment (that includes the human scientists).

So if consciousness is just a set of tricks on the neuro-chemical system of our main neurological organ, that is brain, and if our brain is but a product of genes and environmental influence, via natural selection, then how could mr. Dennet arrive on his conclusion in the first place and declare it to be "the truth about what consciousness is"? If our a brain is only a blindly evolved organ throug millions of years of unguiding natural selection and if our thoughts, ideas, imaginations and feelings are but a projection of our brain based on it's own neuro-chemical reactions, which those reactions by their turn came to be as a result of a combination of genetic determination and various infuences from the enviorment (whether it is physical, social, economical, ideological or otherwise), then how can anyone actually have a clue of what reality is? Our consciousness be then the mere projection of our neuro-chemical history of various influences, either biological or environmental, and thus completely unable to give us a clear image of perception of reality; to put it otherwise, if mr. Dennet is true then his own permises are wrong for they are falling into the same verdict.

Wait wait wait…. Is the person Dan Dennett speaking here or is it the combination of biological material in a specific order/assembly speaking? Because if it's a person speaking and communicating these ideas then I, a person, actually have something to engage with
and can make a choice to ponder. But if it isn't a person, if it is purely brain
that is causing the body to move as it reacts to external stimuli and
causing utterances to come out of the mouth of the body….then
what are any of us doing?

Dr. Dennett is a studied individual. That is clear. What is unclear after this is anything he said
about consciousness and free will considering what he has gone on record for in the past
about his presuppositions as a Natural Materialist. His Worldview literally undermines
his ability to claim that he and anyone else can think/act rationally. Why should we
believe anything he says at all if we are nothing more than brain chemistry?

I'll let him speak for himself:
– “I’m a robot, and you’re a robot, but that doesn’t make us any less dignified or wonderful or lovable or responsible for our actions, … Why does our dignity depend on our being scientifically inexplicable?”
= Well Dr. Dennett, according to your Worldview and your very admission in your statement, dignity doesn't exist and is merely a clever trick our brain chemistry has evolved to trick
us into perceiving. As robots, we are left with nothing other than our programming
to which we literally CANNOT be responsible for since we are not the ones
doing the programming.