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#241 — Final Thoughts on Free Will

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Reasoning Is All About Constraints

To be convinced by an argument is to be subjugated by it. It's to be forced to lieve it regardless of your preferences. You're about as free as any prisoner who wis ever led to the gallows. That's why i know an argument that worked on me should also work on you. And if it shouldn't work on you, it shouldn't have worked on me either. Reasoning is all about constraints. Two plus two equals four. Where's the freedom in that? Are you free not to understand that two plus two equals four? Not if you do, in fact understand it. So whether you understand something or not isn't or control. But the difference...

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