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#241 — Final Thoughts on Free Will

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Illusion of Free Will

People don't want to believe that they are, in any sense, like a wave breaking on the shore, but this is how causes propagate. People do not feel free to beat their hearts or to stop beating them. The feeling of having free will is directly connected to the feeling of being a self. Many scientists and philosophers have acknowledged the problem here, but most appear to think that we must live with the illusion ofFree Will....

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