Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1241 w/Sam Harris:
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Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1241 w/Sam Harris:
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As knowledge increases, that there is no free will is increasingly supported by testable objective evidence. Proponents of free will do not have objective evidence and rely on intuition.
Life is generally constructive because otherwise its ability to survive and reproduce would diminish and extinguish in the face of changing circumstances. Otherwise, it would not evolve. However, even if constructive, it may fail to compete. Comparative constructiveness/destructiveness, happiness/sadness, between individuals is largely a question of the cards that are dealt to that individual. Circumstances can change that, for the better or worse.
I am the totality of everything i have learned and the chemical balances that have occured.
While my free will is EXTREMELY influenced by past, present, ame future knowledge and processes it is ultimatley my choice as to what actions i take.
Done in a vaccum? No.
Completely controlled by enviornmental factors? Mostly but not completely.
To me Sam Harris always looks like he's trying not to laugh.
Nice try