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More interesting than the free will concept are the myriad ways people lose their goddamn minds around it You'll have one guy arguing that choice exists because something-something space noise, while another jumps straight to "I suppose you'd like us all to just kill ourselves!"https://twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg/status/1174075156681019392 …
Sam is one of the nicest people you could hope to meet but he really has made a lifestyle out of showing up in other people's brains and breaking all of their favorite stuff there
That's gotta be a quote for his next book
There's free will and there's "the problem of free will" and the second definition assumes that there is a mind-body dualism in humans - as if their minds are disembodied from the physical universe. Without that mythos, free will just means globs of matter with agency.
In some sense we are. Information is abstract.
Taken with a grain of salt. Same for other popular Twitter Sages of today.
Sam always struck me as one of those people that is so nice and cooperative they can be hard to get along with from all the bending over backwards to be nice. That he also breaks people's minds is one of the better compensations for that one could ask for!
His #2 here is a pretty bold claim that isn’t remotely self-evident, and has thousands of years of philosophy behind it. He’s basically saying he’s solved... well... Here: https://twitter.com/nr_sheff/status/1174088750823026688?s=21 …
Same was said of Ted Bundy
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