0G110: What's Expected of Us and Dennett's Compatibilism

07/08/20 • 42 min

Turns out Thomas has a bit of a free will monkey on his back, so we're going the full Dune on Daniel Dennett's compatibilism. We started out with Devs and the paradox of predictability and now we're on to a short story about predictors and what they might mean for our sense of meaning and purpose. We're going to follow up with another short story from Ted Chiang's Exhalation and then check out the anime Psychopass. All because we're lucky enough to do so.

What's Expected of Us: https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a

Dennett on Free Will as Moral Competence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwbnGqOrAEM

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CONTENT PREVIEW: Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom and "Could have done otherwise"

What's Expected of Us: https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a

Dennett on Free Will as Moral Competence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwbnGqOrAEM

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CONTENT PREVIEW: Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom and "Could have done otherwise"

Previous Episode

0G109: Uploaded and For-Profit Afterlife

Welcome to Amazon Prime, the best media empire money can buy as long as we're not talking Disney or Netflix money. Here in Amazon Prime you can enjoy shows that are either too slow and deep to be accessible, like Tales from the Loop, or shows too shallow and mainstream to convey any meaning, like this weeks installment, Uploaded! Uploaded is the kind of show that would be free in the heaven depicted by uploaded. We use it to discuss the dangers of a for-profit afterlife and the coercive implications for even the healthiest among us. Assuming you've got your autopay setup correctly, otherwise these show notes are all you get.

There really need to be more papers on the ethics of for-profit uploading.

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CONTENT PREVIEW: What's Expected of Us and Dennett's Compatibilism.

Next Episode

0G111: Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom and Dennett's Compatibilism, Part 2

So, apparently no matter what timeline we're in, I'm always going to end up in a debate about free will. At least this is a good one! Thomas brought some great short stories to the party and we continue to hash out what of Dennett's compatibilism is valuable and where does it fall short. After you listen make sure to submit questions for our last episode on Dennett before we move on to ANATHEM! Also, new intro quotes!

Questions for next episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/questions-on-and-38720799

Dennett on Free Will as Moral Competence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwbnGqOrAEM

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CONTENT PREVIEW: Psychopass and Dennett Q and A