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It's another episode on Free Will, this time from the system perspective or 2D perspective. Using the viewpoint of Daniel Dennett, I review the 2D perspective of Free Will, illustrating how it contrasts with Robert Sapolsky's perspective and my own.

Daniel Dennett is known as the "Father of Modern Philosophy." He is a neuroscientist and the head of the Philosophy Department at Tufts University. In this podcast, I reviewed the following documents covering Daniel Dennett's perspective on Free Will:

• Big Think interview with Daniel Dennett
• YouTube video: Daniel Dennett on Free Will
• YouTube video: Daniel Dennett - The Magic of Consciousness
• "Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness" by Daniel C. Dennett
• "I've Been Thinking..." written by Daniel C. Dennett

I'll be very honest with you; I am not a fan of Daniel Dennett. I find his writings and lectures to be like climbing a very tall ladder, with many different concepts all precariously stacked on top of each other, yet never connected. I love learning, except from him. When I listen to or read Daniel Dennett, I am reminded of all the professors I had that did not want students to ask questions. 

He does not explain his thoughts in a manner that makes them accessible but rather in a way that makes them inaccessible. I think this is the sign of a highly cognitive thinker who lacks empathy for his audience.  He forces the listener to do mental gymnastics to understand his thoughts. I believe he is indicative of issues we see in all the current humanities, except for anthropology. The American universities are are staffed by people who believe the masses are stupid and unable to think for themselves. They have turned the humanities into a religion, with only those who agree being right and those who disagree being wrong. This has contributed to our country's mental health crisis. It seems to me that those who run the humanities are educated but have not lived. They do not know how to reach their audience, and they do not care to do so. They think the audience should simply do as they say and not think for themselves.

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