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Original Title:	Free Will
ISBN:	1451683405 (ISBN13: 9781451683400)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2012)

Free Will Paperback | Pages: 83 pages

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Title	:	Free Will
Author	:	Sam Harris
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 83 pages
Published	:	March 6th 2012 by Free Press
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. Science. Psychology. Religion. Biology. Neuroscience

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Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. 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. 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.

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I am an agnostic which means I am firm in my belief that I have no idea what to believe. I don't know what is true and what isn't and no one, no matter how strong your faith, or how strong your lack of faith is.....you don't know either. You don't know what happens to you after you die. You pretty much have to die to find that out. You may really, really, really believe little alien souls are attached to your body and making your life miserable, and that the only way to make it all better is to

The only issue I can see people having would be based on semantics over the term "free will" - but as for the actual arguments, Harris seems to be spot-on.However, I'd love to hear Sam Harris discuss what he thinks would be a better option. As in... how could free will be done better? Would we get to select our brains? Would we get to choose our body? Our gender? And what would make us choose one brain, body, or gender over the other? It seems the decision would still be caused by something

I suppose I ought to begin with the disclaimer that I happen to believe in something like free will (though I won't articulate its complexities here), and this book is an argument against it. Having made that disclaimer, let me say that I am reviewing this book as a scientist and a philosopher, not so much as a religious person. Unfortunately, what this book needs is more time than I'll give it here, but let me summarize the biggest frustrations I had with it.As a scientist: Sam Harris is very

Free Will is a short but informative book (judging by its length calling it an essay would probably be more accurate) looking to prove that free will is an illusion, and I have to say, it managed to convince me. Despite the daunting subject, Haris' ideas are clear and easy to grasp which is something I really appreciate in non-fiction. So many authors get so tangled in their ideas that they forget that what they're writing isn't meant just for them. It was great, food for thought for a very long

So, Sam Harris an atheist and a neuroscientistHe begins his book by telling a shocking story of how some burglars robbed, child-abused, raped, tortured and set a family's house on fire and killing them apart from the father who survived.He then says that one of them had shown signs of remorse and attempted suicide a couple of times, and the other had repeatedly been raped as a child, and both of these men had been suffering from brain tumors. He concludes that if any one of us had been in their

Although Sam Harris is a neuroscientist rather than a theologian, he prosecutes his case against free will in this book with religious zeal rather than scientific objectivity and rigor. He constantly and repeatedly makes uncorroborated blanket statements that the reader is evidently supposed to take on faith. The book reads like a lawyer's briefand not a very good one at that (I speak as a retired litigation lawyer)rather than a dispassionate scientific or philosophical inquiry.Harris, like many