Intentionally Ignorant: Does Free Will Exist?
Channel: vlogbrothers
Date: 2018-06-08

Oh My....you're in the description. So, the way I tended to deal with the question of free will in my earlier days was that I of course make decisions, it's just inevitable that I will make the decision I made. The fact that it was inevitable did not make it not a decision. The fact that it could be pre-determined what I would do with my free will did not mean I didn't have free will.

Of course, it did. To me that seems like a palliative. Now, instead, I just choose to not accept something that I know is true. I do the same thing with regard to universal meaning and my inevitable demise. And, honestly, there a trillion other truths I ignore every day, so I think it's OK.

I also recognize that the question of Free Will is far from settled among the philosophers and scientists and physicists and all of those people. This isn't a "does free will exist" video, it's a "here's how I react to the fact that lots of people thing it doesn't" video. And so, maybe this video shouldn't have been called intentionally ignorant maybe it should have been called "I don't want to know!"


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