Sam Harris on "Free Will"

SAM HARRIS IS THE AUTHOR of the New Work Times bestsellers, The Moral Landscape, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. His new book is short (96) pages, to the point, and will change the way we all view free will, as Oliver Sacks wrote: "Brilliant and witty — and never less than incisive — Free Will shows that Sam Harris can say more in 13,000 words than most people do in 100,000." UCSD neuroscientist V.S, Ramachandran notes: "In this elegant and provocative book, Sam Harris demonstrates — with great intellectual ferocity and panache — that free will is an inherently flawed and incoherent concept, even in subjective terms. If he is right, the book will radically change the way we view ourselves as human beings."

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[thetravelinghermit]

According to Harris you can't decide to like the thought. There is no conscious thought. I cannot stop myself from writing this. it's not my fault, it was already determined...

[ushmo10]

Look it's ben stiller.

[alientranslator]

You do when you are presented with two options. That is what we are responsible for .. unless you have totally abandoned the acceptance of Law of Attraction, Cause and Effect, Karma, Reaping what we Sow .. Getting yours .. etc ..

[Stan lk]

None of us have free will but all things are predetermined

[firehot006]

I picked Cairo!!!

[octnovdec jan]

Just because something doesn't appeal to you emotionally, doesn't mean it's wrong.

[octnovdec jan]

Just because something does not appeal to you emotionally, doesn't mean it's wrong.

[IamPureFire Child]

You were impressionable child, that respected authority, and so in your naivety you embraced something that if it was first introduced to you in your adult life you would of brushed off and called ludicrous. Therefore stop cling onto the irrational, make believe, persona of your adolescence and being a one trick pony spewing out verse and chapter from some arbitrary book that has no meaning for us any more and dare to be your own self without the pre-programming from some random religion

[krejzyvorld]

You are unaware that with your blaspheming speech against the Bible you are calling upon your head a strong course. My whole life experience speaks against senseless opposing the truths, i.e. the reason behind all existence, God, not chance or any other fantasy of people who call themselves scientist. I am not stupid to fight against somebody who is quadrillion times greater and more powerful than I. But you seem to be.