Sam Harris vs. Daniel Dennett. Free Will Debate.

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  @workisbunker · 9 months ago

  i'm imagining they're having this conversation in a chuck e cheese, and they have taken a party table, denying a family's access to it

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  @one4chesty · 2 years ago

  To the prospective viewer: Harris wanted to talk about whether or not a murderer has the ability to be anything else, and Dennet wanted to talk about whether or not that murderer should be punished for his crime. They went on like this having two separate conversations for an hour and a half. You as the viewer get to see both of their view points elucidated on these two separate subjects, but it would be a stretch to call it a debate.

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  @REALdavidmiscarriage · 2 years ago

  Lol I love how Sam is trying to be civil in the beginning but Daniel just goes straight for his guts and won't let off...

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  @auroraborealis13579 · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J_9DKIAn48&amp;t=2192">36:32</a> “moral responsibility is something that we have to redefine, in the way that you are eager to redefine free will”….. 😂 Sam is such a savage!

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  @Dezmondl94 · 2 years ago

  59 minutes in and Dan still hasn’t articulated his point in any solid fashion.

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  @davidullery · 3 years ago

  By Dennett’s definition of free will ( Compatibilism dressed up), a computer chess game has free will.

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  @cmvamerica9011 · 3 years ago

  Dan could never admit that his opinions might be incorrect.😂

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  @Jay-vp3kk · 3 years ago (edited)

  Dennett doesn&apos;t make a lot of good points in my oppinion here, he also doesn&apos;t seem to fully grasp the points.

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  @ZakariaOIAAA · 1 month ago

  This is why YouTube is amazing. Being able to listen to this intellectual journey between two giants for free is truly unbelievable. Thank you, Sam Harris. And RIP Daniel Dennett—you are deeply missed, especially at a time when we need voices like yours the most.

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  @w00tn33s · 3 years ago

  Sam opens by praising Dan for his WILLINGNESS to reconsider… except of course he deserves no such credit because he had no control over that.

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  @AlonGutmanOfficial · 3 years ago (edited)

  To me Sam Harris is a lot more convincing. Most of the arguments by Daniel Dennett are based on a semantical distortion of the term &quot;free will&quot; into something vague and undefined, which is the case with most supporters of free-wiil among scientists, and I really don&apos;t understand why anyone would do that. You want to talk about something else rather than an actual free will? - Come up with a different term, and stop confusing your audience.

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  @jonathanarrowood8386 · 4 months ago

  Sam Harris, &quot;Feel free to react to that...&quot; to Mr. Dennett.

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