#318 - Physics & Philosophy
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Importance of Free Will
I think that part of what makes can make people feel uneasy is having this picture of a soul as immaterial and then thinking, gee, but if the matter can explain everything, then I'm not doing any work here. And there, I think the mistake is just thinking that they have any immaterial parts of them or that they are even in part an immaterial thing. Then I think they've just made a factual error there. All right, so let's just do a very brief experiment here because this gets to what I find so, you know, specious about the concept of free will. As you just pointed out, the common sense notion doesn't map on to determin
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