Minority Report Phy

rityPOWER POINT:

Slide 1: A mixed tragedy

* 2054

* Spiraling murder rate

* A group of defective babies are born probably from hallucinogen contact

Slide 2:

* These are (for some reason) able to see future murders in the present

* Most die (as this makes everyday life somewhat challenging)

* BUT 3 REMAIN…

Slide 3:

* Arthur, Dashiel and Agatha

* They are sedated and plugged into a machine

* And a rapid response ‘Pre-crime’ dept is created

Slide 4: It’s wonderful

* Murder rate falls to almost zero

* Failure rate is said to be zero, how would you know?

* Because it’s murder and it’s America, prison space is not a problem

* Everyone (apart from the pre-offenders) is happy

Slide 5: There’s a paradox…

Slide 6: But then…

* The precogs predict an upcoming murder

* With Tom Cruise as the murderer

Slide 7: Anyway long story…

* Cruise is faced with his sons killer (or someone that has been paid to pretend…)

* But…

* He does not kill him

* Raising a massive question

Slide 8: On the one hand…

* Experiment

* Free will appeared to be an illusion

* Which is weird because we all think of ourselves as free

* At least metaphysically

Slide 9: What we usually think

1. Decision

2. Volition/will

3. Finger moves

Slide 10: But in the Libet experiment…

Copy hình não: action part of the brain is what functions first!

One or two seconds before you ‘decide’ or ‘will’ to

Slide 11: Determinism

* Everything you do is caused by something

* And that something is probably a lot of things

* We do not choose for all that affects us to do so…

* So a bit like the dominoes last year…

Slide 12:

* Thing is…

* Look at each of these steps

* You won’t find free choice in any of them

* Do you control 1 step back?

* 10 steps?

Slide 13:

* Says that every ‘choice’ you have ever made…

* Wasn’t one

* It’s just a response to stimuli, it could...