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#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning
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How to Unleash the Concept of Free Will
You can unravel the notion of free will just by thinking certain thoughts, but you can't feel that it doesn't exist unless you can pay close attention to how thoughts and intentions arise. So the way to unravel it conceptually is just to realize, okay, I didn't make myself. And yet those are the only things that could contrive to produce my next thought or impulse or moment of behavior. If you were going to add something magical to that clockwork like an immortal soul, you can also notice that you didn't produce your soul, right?
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