#30: Too long and needlessly convoluted so I didn't read all of it. Moreover, the guy in the video looks like Michael Tsarion, a quack, so I looked him up and not surprisingly he's a quack as well. But then I thought "okay, that's not fair to @xochinla so I'll watch it."
He doesn't defend his position at all but predominantly bashes 'the un-enlightened'. His thought process is full of fallacies, of which calling Stephen Hawking dumb is called an 'ad hominem'. Only toward the end he talks about his points, without any arguments whatsoever: "This is the truth because I'm right."
When I was young I used to believe in this nonsense as well. "It's much easier to believe something than it is to understand it." —Chris Hadfield, Astronaut. I even believed I was enlightened at some point. Little did I realize that I was a moron. It's easier to blame others than to acknowledge or change your own misgivings or ignorance. Anyway, all of this is beside the point.
Mark Passio has no knowledge about physics. He says "natural law is deterministic". It isn't. There's classical mechanics and quantum mechanics. Classical mechanics is deterministic, quantum mechanics isn't.
However, as Sam Harris mentions, randomness does not mean there's free will. And it's deceptively simple to see why; if thoughts are random, then how did you choose them? You can't. No one chooses their thoughts. Thoughts just pop up into the brain and you only become aware of them afterward. It never goes like "the word X is what will pop up into my head next". No, it just pops up.
Anyway, since I know what it is like to be a conspiracy theorist I realize I will not be able to convince you. You might grow out of it later, but it'll come from your own insight. I have written this answer just to inform bystanders to tread lightly and be skeptical to the highest degree. Take care. The world is not so dark if you look at the light.
He doesn't defend his position at all but predominantly bashes 'the un-enlightened'. His thought process is full of fallacies, of which calling Stephen Hawking dumb is called an 'ad hominem'. Only toward the end he talks about his points, without any arguments whatsoever: "This is the truth because I'm right."
When I was young I used to believe in this nonsense as well. "It's much easier to believe something than it is to understand it." —Chris Hadfield, Astronaut. I even believed I was enlightened at some point. Little did I realize that I was a moron. It's easier to blame others than to acknowledge or change your own misgivings or ignorance. Anyway, all of this is beside the point.
Mark Passio has no knowledge about physics. He says "natural law is deterministic". It isn't. There's classical mechanics and quantum mechanics. Classical mechanics is deterministic, quantum mechanics isn't.
However, as Sam Harris mentions, randomness does not mean there's free will. And it's deceptively simple to see why; if thoughts are random, then how did you choose them? You can't. No one chooses their thoughts. Thoughts just pop up into the brain and you only become aware of them afterward. It never goes like "the word X is what will pop up into my head next". No, it just pops up.
Anyway, since I know what it is like to be a conspiracy theorist I realize I will not be able to convince you. You might grow out of it later, but it'll come from your own insight. I have written this answer just to inform bystanders to tread lightly and be skeptical to the highest degree. Take care. The world is not so dark if you look at the light.