Free Will
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (933 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B007HI3AVY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 136 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Vic S said Difficult for most people to embrace, but excellent nonetheless. This book is interesting, to say the least. It's a difficult subject for most people to embrace and even harder for most people to even look at. The fact that we do not have free will is a frightening prospect for people because the very idea strikes at the ego like nothing else.However, it is not at all a new finding. Vedic mystics have known this for thousands of years and neuroscience has shown that thoughts occur and then we become conscious of their occu. Almost Compelling Sam Harris handles an old philosophical issue in a laudably straightforward and persuasive way. My reflections partly differ, though, from what he might accept. Anyway, everything we individual humans are, do, and think is caused by conditions reaching far back in time, although sheer chance does loosen this causation. No room remains for completely self-chosen characters, thoughts, and actions. Even notions of law, morality, and simple decency result from na. an important voice in clear, research-focused science writing alaska Part philosophical treatise, part peer-reviewed literature review, Sam Harris dispels the illusion of free will in a mere 13,000 words. The determinism proposed by the New Atheist movement has been in and out of vogue for centuries, depending, in the moment, on the reigning scientific and philosophical paradigms. Harris' writing adds to the discussion (and perhaps not-so-gently placing the penultimate nail in the coffin) by citing recent neuroscience research
It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality-as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement-without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.