June video (Free will with bonus content)
Added 2025-06-05 19:14:00 +0000 UTCI did it again, I started the video making it patreon only and then thought it would be a good main channel video. What do you think? The last 15 minutes or so only appear on patreon. The shortened version will appear on my channels around 5 pm.
The patreon chat is still at the end. Let me know what you think!
It is okay and fine if you like free will and hate this video.
Thank you for another month of support.
Comments
Before I go – I'll be cancelling my subscription now, as I am also a Nebula subscriber & need to cut costs – just want to say thanks for these extra videos. I appreciate your ability to discuss matters largely off-the-cuff (along with the accompanying relief of not having constant jumps, as most such video essayists do). Incidentally, this has long been my own opinion on the Free Will question also. The videos I liked the most were the ones about Feinman, billionnaires – which I still find endlessly enjoyable, such worthwhile take-downs of hubris – & the former reminded me of the "Nietzsche bros" that would haunt the halls during my time at university in the 1990s (no doubt they still do), with their arrogance & eternally, painfully sophomoric takes on any & every philosophical question, such as free will. Again, thanks for your work.
Max Sonthonax
2025-08-01 16:18:48 +0000 UTCI agree when some YouTube science personality talks about freewill I am not sure what do they mean by that, some kind of philosophical argument or a physics analogy that is of little meaning.
Vaporised Air
2025-07-28 12:05:49 +0000 UTCI find that many of my friends are totally bored by discussions of free will, yet they will talk endlessly about sports teams or golf or tennis. So strange.
richard horvitz
2025-06-23 14:08:21 +0000 UTCThank you for the bonus content! Also, I really liked the Car Talk video. I used to listen to them every weekend. Brought back good memories.
Dan Tower
2025-06-22 23:23:28 +0000 UTCI really appreciated the bonus content Angela - that was swell. Re the 10K subscriber vid, I've looked everywhere for that vid as I saw a thumbnail somewhere with the oscilloscope - is there a link somewhere? Anyone?
Robbie Warren
2025-06-14 05:39:20 +0000 UTCWhy did Angela post 15 minutes of black text on white background that says, "Hi Patreon, this is bonus content?"
Brian Pan
2025-06-13 04:56:10 +0000 UTCI am not sure that people like Gerard 't Hooft are motivated by greed and grift. His work inside of the main physics community is well regarded and he's clearly an insider there, not someone on the outside. He's old, and may just be playing around with stuff at the edges of his field. There's others like him who were clearly well regarded on the inside. David Bohm wrote a well-regarded textbook on quantum mechanics (Quantum Theory) but is perhaps better known as a proponent of hidden variables. But he proposed a very specific and clear hidden variable. I had the pleasure of attending a lecture he gave at the University of Illinois when I was a graduate student (yes, I'm old), and he said something like "oh yeah, the physics community doesn't like my theory much because the hidden variable works but at the expense of introducing action at a distance (his hidden variable doesn't obey an inverse square law). That's the only part I specifically remember, but he didn't seem angry or upset in the least (about that anyway). There are people that I think are in it to grab attention, like Michio Kaku, and Sabine Hossenfelder and too many others.
Bert Speelpenning
2025-06-12 23:16:27 +0000 UTCGood video. I agree the answer to the free will question is not important to how people live their life because the notion of having agency is at the center of living your life, not necessarily in the jury box but in simple things like what you do to stay in your lane when driving on a curvy road: of course at all moments, Newton's law isn't being violated, and yet you can navigate and go where you need to go.
Bert Speelpenning
2025-06-12 23:02:18 +0000 UTC
