Episode 59: Tumors All the Way Down (With Sam Harris)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Illusion of Free Will
"The illusion of free will is an illusion which is to say that that you act if you pay close enough attention to it the illusion is not even there," he says. "It becomes clear that thoughts simply arise and that I don't know what my next thought will be any more than you know what it will be or any more than I know what your nextthought will be" He adds: "I'm smoking the wrong stuff maybe because I have the feeling of agency at least all the time and we haven't gotten over it yet"
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