00:00Change the future itself, determinism and free will.
00:04Are we free to change the future is intimately tied to the age-old debate between determinism and free will.
00:12Determinists argue that every event, including human actions, is the inevitable result of prior causes.
00:20In this view, the future is already written each choice we make is simply the outcome of a chain of events stretching back to the beginning of time.
00:29If this is true, then the future is as fixed as the past, and perhaps it is just a matter of time before we develop the tools or insight to access it.
00:40In contrast, advocates of free will argue that humans have the power to shape their own destinies.
00:47The future is not predetermined. It is created moment by moment through our actions and decisions.
00:53If free will exists, then the future is not a fixed destination.
