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Does Determinism Rob The Human Experience of All Moral Value? (tilvids.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/philosophy

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cross-posted from: https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/52190b96-3443-483e-91ef-8b99edb3bd58

What would a largely deterministic society look and behave like? Would it be, as some imagine, a more merciful and just society, or as some others suppose, a veritable wasteland where lawless immorality, cruelty, and hopelessness reign supreme? In this video I hope to answer this contentious question and to bring some clarity to an otherwise esoteric matter.

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For this particular work I have taken much from the philosopher Spinoza, the psychologist Robert Sapolsky, and the Neuroscientist/philosopher Sam Harris. I have found their insights to be extremely helpful in clarifying my own thoughts on the matter and I encourage you to read or listen to their thoughts on Determinism and free-will.

Thought this would be interesting given the recent discussion on Robert Sapolsky. If you like this content the PeerTube channel can be followed directly from your Lemmy account at [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Copy of comment from crosspost:

Society is already deterministic (or at least not controlled by us, you can argue for quantum randomness). People still behave like they have free will.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys 3 points 1 year ago

You don't need to ask what a deterministic society would look like, you live in one. Events are manfactured snapshots. Reality is actually an unbroken causal stream. It doesn't matter to you if we live in a deterministic reality because you can't perceive it. To you, reality seems dependent on choices. Think about that. Does that really seem possible?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I already responded to this in the other community, whish we could combine posts from separate communities on different instances into one. Only annoying thing about federation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In this case, once more instances are aware of the PeerTube channel ([email protected]), I think you could reasonably point to comments over there as the official primary discussion. On my instance it already shows up as a crossposted discussion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't get it. Where is All Moral Value, who is Rob, and why is he The Human Experience? Is it his wrestler name?