The popular conception of free will seems to rest on two assumptions: (1) that each of us could have behaved differently than we did in the past, and… - Sam Harris

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The popular conception of free will seems to rest on two assumptions: (1) that each of us could have behaved differently than we did in the past, and (2) that we are the conscious source of most of our thoughts and actions in the present.

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About Sam Harris

Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American author, philosopher, public intellectual, and neuroscientist, as well as the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason. He is the author of The End of Faith (2004), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2005 and appeared on The New York Times best seller list for 33 weeks, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006), The Moral Landscape (2010), Lying (2011), Free Will (2012), and most recently Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (2014).

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Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath — and the God of Nature too. If you can't see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.
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