.@SamHarrisOrg @paulbloomatyale If another can influence your choices via your conscious, then your conscious processes can do the same.
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@TorpedoWilson@paulbloomatyale Okay. Consciously think a thought--about anything--and then notice whether you "chose" that thought. -
@SamHarrisOrg@TorpedoWilson@paulbloomatyale So you could only have free will if you can think what you think before you think it? -
@robin_her@TorpedoWilson Yes, it sounds absurd. But the very notion of free will is incoherent. -
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@SamHarrisOrg@robin_her You have failed to observe how conscious interacts with lower brain IMO. -
@TorpedoWilson@robin_her Of course it interacts. But it is unconscious before it is conscious. And you don't control any of it. -
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@SamHarrisOrg@robin_her Agree control by conscious is slow & limited, but humans can be trained & train themselves to influence choices. - 1 more reply
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@SamHarrisOrg consider share your med experience of not self with Paul bloom and the others. I imagine its a key reason for your conviction? -
@Mettaman1 Yes. That's the topic of my next book (out 9/9). - 1 more reply
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@SamHarrisOrg Except that we can choose not to reason. A train can't choose not to be on its tracks. -
@josephf5@SamHarrisOrg To quote the Rush song Freewill, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice". -
@_minty_fresh_ A train can't choose not to decide. -
@josephf5@_minty_fresh_ Indeed - a train is not conscious -
@robin_her Right. Which is why a train on its tracks is not similar to a person reasoning.
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@SamHarrisOrg@paulbloomatyale Heh heh, you've been reading too much daniel kahneman!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@SamHarrisOrg@paulbloomatyale Maybe, but at least we are movingThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@SamHarrisOrg@paulbloomatyale Define 'free'. Ultimately nothing is. Irrelevant to the concept of free will operating in human sociality.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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