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#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning

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Is There a Difference Between a Tremor That I Can't Control and a Purposeful Motor Action?

There's an illusion that if you arrange the universe exactly the way it was a moment ago, it could have played out differently. There is this illusion and it has to be an illusion because there's no picture of causation that would make sense of it. If I think about something that you deeply regret doing, right? You hold someone else responsible for because they really are the upstream agent in your mind of what they did. That's an awful thing that that person did and they shouldn't have done it.

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