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University of Texas-Austin philosophy professor David Sosa explains determinism in the movie Waking Life. If you're into philosophy, you'll love this movie.

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omf brandon omg r u ... ( 11 months ago by cooler393)

omf brandon omg r u 4 reall

One of the best ... ( 8 months ago by gnomespa)

One of the best parts of this amazing movie!

wow. Dude. I just ... ( 8 months ago by Domzdream)

wow. Dude. I just got a headache.

All this guy said ... ( 6 months ago by peelinglayers)

All this guy said in so many big and arrogant words is that, 'you have no free will, no say whatsover about your life. god and/or nature created you as part of this large machine where your rolde is predetermined and you work your ass off for something you don't know what the final purpose may be, and then you die.' According to him, it's better to be a large gear than, say a paint chip in this machine. Perfectly explains this inhumane, destructive and greedy world we created for ourselves.

Do you have any ... ( 5 months ago by arey051012)

Do you have any evidence for Free Will?

Since you science ... ( 5 months ago by peelinglayers)

Since you science worshipers are the ones that are so obsessed with evidence, do you have one against it? What exactly does science have evidence for other than a whole bunch of agreed upon assumptions and 'established models', which are nothing more than 'agreed upon assumptions' that have been around for a while? It is one thing to have a belief system, which science is. It is another to force it upon everyone else like it is the Truth. That's what's wrong with religion.

All this guy said ... ( 5 months ago by peelinglayers)

All this guy said in so many big and arrogant words is that, 'you have no free will, no say whatsover about your life. god and/or nature created you as part of this large machine where your rolde is predetermined and you work your ass off for something you don't know what the final purpose may be, and then you die.' According to him, it's better to be a large gear than, say a paint chip in this machine. Perfectly explains this inhumane, destructive and greedy world we created for ourselves.

Since you science ... ( 5 months ago by peelinglayers)

Since you science worshipers are the ones that are so obsessed with evidence, do you have one against it? What exactly does science have evidence for other than a whole bunch of agreed upon assumptions and 'established models', which are nothing more than 'agreed upon assumptions' that have been around for a while? It is one thing to have a belief system, which science is. It is another to force it upon everyone else like it is the Truth. That's what's wrong with religion.

Science isn't a ... ( 5 months ago by Kujien)

Science isn't a belief system persay. Not like in the sense of religion. There is no such thing as a "science worshiper" that is ration people and irrational people. You seem to go the irrational way.

Do you have any ... ( 5 months ago by peelinglayers)

Do you have any evidence of this commenter's irrationality, or a mere assumption should suffice? Now, you said there is no such thing as 'science worshiper'...what do you call a man who believes in what he has never seen? A beliver, right? 'Irrational people' sometimes put that hyperbolically as 'worship'. Now, are you willing to argue that point? Oh...since we are sharing our opinions about each other freely, I don't think you know the difference between science and religion, for starters.

First of all you ... ( 5 months ago by Kujien)

First of all you need to learn how to use the "post comment" button. You hit it once. Evidence for YOUR irrationality sure I do, your comment. See your blurring the lines between what people say and what science says ( which is the cumulative consensus of scientists after looking at the evidence ). I am a person and my opinion is that your comment made you out to be an irrational person with the whole "science worshiper" and the being "obsessed with evidence".

I will try hard not ... ( 5 months ago by peelinglayers)

I will try hard not to offend your sensibilities by utilizing youtube features properly. My question to you, when did 'consensus' become 'evidence'? You say 'your blurring the line'[sic]. Which line exactly? Faith and belief systems have one line, not to be confused with any blurry one;a leap of faith. What makes your leap of faith better than any other shmuck's out there? What qualifies to discuss science? You certainly don't sound like a disciple. Don't you know, science is impersonal.

I don't take leaps ... ( 5 months ago by Kujien)

I don't take leaps of faith I live by evidence. Faith is needed where there is no evidence. Like what goes in are public school science textbooks is a scientific consensus of scientists AFTER LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE.

Have you looked at ... ( 5 months ago by peelinglayers)

Have you looked at such evidence, personally and on your own, without the bias of influence?

Yep, I don't accept ... ( 5 months ago by Kujien)

Yep, I don't accept things on face value. I don't know which topic you're trying to get at.

Where does ... ( 5 months ago by blahyapyap)

Where does awareness come from if it isn't free will? Also if scientific laws "trick" you into thinking you have free will, you have free will until it stops "tricking you" and that would be death.

Self-awareness is ... ( 5 months ago by arey051012)

Self-awareness is the combination of all of our senses working properly (a person who loses all his sense will no longer be self-aware). And all of these senses work according to physical laws. Self-awareness is caused by something (physics). That's all determinism means. And your mind can play tricks on itself without those tricks being true. For example, take "deja vu." The mind isn't perfect...it's often wrong. Free will is a very, very convincing illusion, but an illusion nonetheless.

A renaissance human ... ( 5 months ago by peelinglayers)

A renaissance human you are! Look, friend, your life itself is lived at face value. Don't espouse your atheistic certainty as if it is fact. You have never examined one scientific evidence for yourself. All you repeat is what you have been told. For starters, explain punctured equilibrium, honestly,...to yourself. I am afraid, I am only going to end up fitting your stereotype regardless of what I say..the fringe. You go on living in bliss, or ask some questions. Your choice. Good luck.

There's a ... ( 3 months ago by josh16888)

There's a difference between being free to do what you want to do, and "free-will". Every human being acts upon there greatest desire at the point of decision. This is cause and effect and not "free-will". Of course everyone is free to do what they want (absent of laws and other restrictions) but that does not mean that those actions were not based on a previous cause. Causation is fundamental to the abscense of free-will. You can only assert free will when you have discarded causation.