Sam Harris on the Illusion of Free Will

1. 2018-11-10 at 9:59 PM UTC

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   mmQ Lisa Turtle
   It would've been even more stupid had I finished it.
2. 2018-11-10 at 10:40 PM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]

   Originally posted by PhD in Condom Mechanics I feel control of these words because they're a result of my intentionality. I have no problem with the idea that my intentionality is composed of non-intentional, deterministic subsystems. They're not categorically different. It's like saying my calculator didn't generate the graph I made on it.

   
   When you make a mistake and do something you had no intention of doing you have exactly as much control over your actions as when your intentions work out the way you expect - but it doesn't feel like it. You feel responsible when you end up doing the things you expect yourself to do, when you behave and react in ways which are typical or characteristic of who you are. When you end up doing something unexpected or unintentional, it feels strange like you lost control. But in reality you never were in control, things just didn't happen the way you expected them to. That feeling of being in control, feeling responsible is an illusion based on your behavior matching your intentions. You agree that both your behaviour and your intentions are the result of complex chains of events which you have no influence over and which you did not intend. Therefore whether your actions match your intentions or whether they do not, they are not in your control.
3. 2018-11-10 at 11:03 PM UTC

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   GGG victim of incest [my veinlike two-fold aepyornidae]
   Never been to the dark dark house?
4. 2018-12-02 at 1:43 AM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]

   Originally posted by GGG Never been to the dark dark house?

   
   I don't think so.