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Free will: who's in control?
- "You are free to do what you want, but where do your wants come from? ... Where is the freedom in doing what one wants when one's wants are the product of prior causes —which one cannot inspect, and therefore could not choose, and one had absolutely no hand in creating? ... We can't choose what we choose in life. When it seems that we choose what w... See more
from Sloww Sunday: Babies, Metacognition, Developmental Deaths, & More
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Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.
from Free Will by Sam Harris