{"id":1773,"date":"2023-11-22T12:15:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T10:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/find-more-meaning-without-free-will-bernardo-kastrup-explains\/"},"modified":"2023-11-22T12:15:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T10:15:57","slug":"find-more-meaning-without-free-will-bernardo-kastrup-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/find-more-meaning-without-free-will-bernardo-kastrup-explains\/","title":{"rendered":"Find MORE Meaning WITHOUT Free Will! | Bernardo Kastrup Explains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_17850\"  width=\"840\" height=\"472\"  data-origwidth=\"840\" data-origheight=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zoOi79nQywE?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We usually think that it is free will that gives meaning to life, but what if exactly the opposite is true, that the fact that we don&#8217;t have free will makes life meaningful? A couple of weeks ago Bernardo Kastrup, the executive director of the Essentia Foundation, wrote an essay (<a class=\"yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWQzWnZ6WEJZVXNZa00wMzdVWkxmZXI1LV9XQXxBQ3Jtc0tsUDVMc1E3QTZMdXRCNkNPN05keEl6THM4dE9fY0lOczRULXlZMWhGOVVzQ3ZFdVBGUG1CWnlEWEo0ZG1RT09SaWpiTU5PN3JVcnJqN1YyMG1HWENEZzNhRDBTc0laZFNlTGlHMFNqT1FvWTBQcmxEQQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.essentiafoundation.org%2Fthe-red-herring-of-free-will-in-objective-idealism%2Freading%2F&#038;v=zoOi79nQywE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.essentiafoundation.org\/th&#8230;<\/a>) arguing that, under objective idealism, the whole convulsiveness around free will is a meaningless red herring. In his opinion, the free will vs determinism debate misses the point, because fundamentally there is no distinction between nature\u2019s will and what nature is necessitated to do. In other words: what we assume to be free will is, on a universal level, exactly the same as determinism. In this video ,Hans Busstra sits down with Bernardo Kastrup to discuss this line of reasoning while also trying to make it personal: why do we want free will so badly on a psychological level? Why, as a culture, do we usually associate determinism with nihilism and meaninglessness? The conversation covers Laplace\u2019s Demon, computational irreducibility, and works towards Kastrup&#8217;s main point: if you can accept that, on a personal level, you don&#8217;t have free will, you realize that you are being \u2018played\u2019 by a universe that\u2014due to computational irreducibility\u2014cannot &#8216;see&#8217; where it&#8217;s going before it goes. Instead of suffering as an effect of &#8216;bad&#8217; free will decisions by human agents, suffering becomes part of the inevitable evolution of the universe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Decoding Schopenhauer\u2019s Metaphysics: The Key to Understanding How It Solves the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Paradoxes of Quantum Mechanics\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"840\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpe&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_LlFqL4m3oIJkZT&#038;asin=B08BVYMKX9&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We usually think that it is free will that gives meaning to life, but what if exactly the opposite is true, that the fact that we don&#8217;t have free will makes life meaningful? A couple of weeks ago Bernardo Kastrup, the executive director of the Essentia Foundation, wrote an essay (https:\/\/www.essentiafoundation.org\/th&#8230;) arguing that, under objective &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2023\/11\/22\/find-more-meaning-without-free-will-bernardo-kastrup-explains\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Find MORE Meaning WITHOUT Free Will! | Bernardo Kastrup Explains&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-analytic-idealism","category-talks","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":604,"url":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2023\/01\/14\/bernardo-kastrup-allowing-nature-to-work-through-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":1773,"position":0},"title":"Bernardo Kastrup | Allowing Nature To Work Through You","author":"admin","date":"January 14, 2023","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/668_Rdj9Eos Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. 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