Based Robert Sapolsky succintly lays out why determinism (blackpill) is a freeing and very humane philosophical position

[The Notorious SLAV]

This legitimately reminds me of the "blackpill made me happy/content" posts on here.

My overwhelmingly emphasis is, if you suddenly are convinced there’s no free will, and that’s a total bummer for you, because that makes your, like, egregiously privileged salary seem like something you did not necessarily earn and your prestigious degrees and your circle of loving friends and all the other things that you feel like you, in some manner, earn, deserve, you’re entitled to, oh, bummer, if that’s not the case. If that’s your response to the idea of there being no free will, by definition, you were one of the lucky ones.

For most people on earth, who were dealing with far less privilege, the notion that we are not the captains of our fate is, like, wildly liberating and humane. I mean, just ask someone who’s genetic profile and metabolism dooms them to obesity and being subject to a lifelong of unhappiness and societal stigma over that, and that’s just one of the billion ways in which the discovery that we’re nothing more or less than the biology over which we had no control and the environment over-, is great news, and is the most humane thing on Earth. All we spent is the last 500 years of scientific insights into seeing that people are not responsible for all sorts of things for which they used to be blamed or made to feel like they are inadequate or burnt at the stake for, and this is wonderfully liberating.

Why free will doesn't exist, according to Robert Sapolsky

It's hard to let go of the idea that free will exists, but neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky says that society starts to look very different once you do

www.newscientist.com

 

[veryrare]

Fucking based RobertSapolskycel I love that guy
You should watch his lectures on YT
And for the post, Determinisim and Blackpill are basically in a ven diagram type situation so yeah

 

[The Notorious SLAV]

You should watch his lectures on YT

Definitely will when I'll have the time for it, just the snippets I've seen posted here were very good.

 

[Notkev]

This is based man.

 

[Autistic Uggo]

He is a great academic. I would recommend his books. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers is a fantastic outline of the consequences associated with stress and inceldom.

 

[SCP-Gorillion]

1. If everything is just an effect of physics, one effect of physics can not be more true or false than another. A waterfall is not more true or false than a storm, or banana.
2. Thoughts, evaluations and propositions are also just effects of physics.
3. Conclusion: Evaluations (effects) and propositions (effects) are not more true or false than other evaluations (effects) and propositions (effects)

Conclusion: knowledge is impossible on the basis of materialistic determinism. Making an argument against free will presupposes free will.


by @GeckoBus

how you will respond to this @WorthlessSlavicShit ?

 

[DarkStar]

Will give more of a look into this guy, he seems based

Fucking based RobertSapolskycel I love that guy
You should watch his lectures on YT
And for the post, Determinisim and Blackpill are basically in a ven diagram type situation so yeah

Can you link some good ones?

But yes, this allows many people to have peace & comfort within themselves.

 

[The Notorious SLAV]

1. If everything is just an effect of physics, one effect of physics can not be more true or false than another. A waterfall is not more true or false than a storm, or banana.
2. Thoughts, evaluations and propositions are also just effects of physics.
3. Conclusion: Evaluations (effects) and propositions (effects) are not more true or false than other evaluations (effects) and propositions (effects)

Conclusion: knowledge is impossible on the basis of materialistic determinism. Making an argument against free will presupposes free will.


by @GeckoBus

how you will respond to this @WorthlessSlavicShit ?

This is something I'll have to think about for a while.

 

[veryrare]

Will give more of a look into this guy, he seems based

Can you link some good ones?

But yes, this allows many people to have peace & comfort within themselves.

All the stanford lectures

A snippet from the stanford playlist:
https://youtu.be/JPYmarGO5jM?t=33m40s

About religion:

View: https://youtu.be/4WwAQqWUkpI


About stress:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9H9qTdserM


About depression:

View: https://youtu.be/fzUXcBTQXKM?si=UlpfMxSs_zprH3d3


His own youtube channel with foid daughter:

https://www.youtube.com/@Robert.Sapolsky

He has more lectures, podcasts etc