The Meaning Code | Are We Really Biochemical Robots? Author David Lawrence Discusses the Existence of Free Will. @TheMeaningCode | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Great time talking with David Lawrence who has a degree in Philosophy from UCLA and a law degree from USC, was a practicing lawyer for many years, and is now a researcher and author. Reading Sam Harris' book Free Will caused him to write a compelling examination of the free will debate and the shortcomings of the determinist narrative.
WHY is free will important? I picked up this gem rom today's email from Ryan Holiday:
"Dr. Eger is a complete hero of mine. At 16-years-old, she’s sent to Auschwitz. And how does this not break a person? How do they survive? How do they endure the unendurable? And how do they emerge from this, not just not broken, but cheerful and happy and of service to other people? The last thing Dr. Eger’s mother said to her before she was sent to the gas chambers was that very Stoic idea: even when we find ourselves in horrendous situations, we can always choose how we respond to them, who we’re going to be inside of them, what we’re going to hold onto inside of them. Dr. Eger quotes Frankl, who she later studied under, 'Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.' It was this idea that allowed Dr. Eger to not only endure unimaginable suffering, but to find meaning in it. She went on to become a psychologist and survives to this day, still seeing patients and helping people overcome trauma."
In the video, we also discuss the Nima Arkani Hamed lecture: The Fundamental Morality of Physics. youtu.be/5aAMJNVmdoY
David's website: biochemicalrobots.com
The kindle version is on sale for $2.99 at Amazon. (link for your convenience only. I don't have a relationship with Amazon).
amazon.com/Are-We-Biochemical-Robots-Crusade-ebook/dp/B09W1DFRVQ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1LQ5T4ZG7LPSK&keywords=Are+we+really+biochemical+robots%3F&qid=1673303365&sprefix=are+we+really+biochemical+robots+%2Caps%2C136&sr=8-1
Great time talking with David Lawrence who has a degree in Philosophy from UCLA and a law degree from USC, was a practicing lawyer for many years, and is now a researcher and author. Reading Sam Harris' book Free Will caused him to write a compelling examination of the free will debate and the shortcomings of the determinist narrative.
WHY is free will important? I picked up this gem rom today's email from Ryan Holiday:
"Dr. Eger is a complete hero of mine. At 16-years-old, she’s sent to Auschwitz. And how does this not break a person? How do they survive? How do they endure the unendurable? And how do they emerge from this, not just not broken, but cheerful and happy and of service to other people? The last thing Dr. Eger’s mother said to her before she was sent to the gas chambers was that very Stoic idea: even when we find ourselves in horrendous situations, we can always choose how we respond to them, who we’re going to be inside of them, what we’re going to hold onto inside of them. Dr. Eger quotes Frankl, who she later studied under, 'Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.' It was this idea that allowed Dr. Eger to not only endure unimaginable suffering, but to find meaning in it. She went on to become a psychologist and survives to this day, still seeing patients and helping people overcome trauma."
In the video, we also discuss the Nima Arkani Hamed lecture: The Fundamental Morality of Physics. youtu.be/5aAMJNVmdoY
David's website: biochemicalrobots.com
The kindle version is on sale for $2.99 at Amazon. (link for your convenience only. I don't have a relationship with Amazon).
amazon.com/Are-We-Biochemical-Robots-Crusade-ebook/dp/B09W1DFRVQ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1LQ5T4ZG7LPSK&keywords=Are+we+really+biochemical+robots%3F&qid=1673303365&sprefix=are+we+really+biochemical+robots+%2Caps%2C136&sr=8-1
