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Sam Harris || Free Will (Part 1)

The Psychology Podcast

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The Importance of Consciousness in Human Behavior

David Frum: It seems like the argument you're making is besides the point though, because I think compatible is free will. If they think that they care about making choices that are somehow uncaused, they just aren't understanding what that literally means as you point out. What people really mean when they insist that free will is important is they don't want to feel coerced. They think of causes as sources of coercion, but that's a confusion. He says we have certain degrees of freedom in depending on the role of the mix of conscious and unconscious processes That we can bring to bear to a task at our consciousness at any moment of time. And there's something to say that it

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