Ep 724 – A Purely Deterministic Response to Sam Harris’ Final Thoughts on Free Will, P1

Infants on Thrones

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Glenn sits down with listener Eric to discuss Sam Harris’ arguments against Free Will.

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0:00.0	I have said and written a lot about free will over the years, many of you find my argument
0:09.0	against free will to be very provocative and even off-putting, what I hope to impress
0:18.5	upon you is that the illusion of free will is itself an illusion.
0:23.4	The illusion of free will is itself an illusion, if it makes you uncomfortable to think
0:32.8	about these things, just skip this journey with me.
0:46.2	The popular conception of free will rests on two assumptions.
0:50.8	The first that each of us was free to think and act differently than we did in the past,
0:55.8	just skip this.
0:57.2	The second assumption is that we are the conscious source of many of our thoughts and actions
1:02.6	in the present.
1:04.7	All of our conscious experiences, our thoughts, intentions, desires, and the actions and
1:10.7	choices that result from them are caused by events of which we are not conscious and
1:16.4	which we did not bring into being.
1:18.9	You didn't pick your parents.
1:20.6	You didn't pick your genes, therefore, and you didn't pick the environment into which
1:24.8	you were born, and yet the totality of these facts determines who you are in each moment,
1:31.6	and what you do in the next.
1:33.4	The next thing you think and do can only emerge from this totality of prior causes.
1:40.5	This is infants on thrones, baby steps, who are sought to preach to you.
1:55.9	The philosophies of men, mingled with humor, mingled with men, mingled with humor.
2:06.6	We are evolving.
2:08.4	Baby steps, you don't buy anything, it's more of a nightmare.
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