Do we have free will?
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Sam Harris had made the most convincing arguments about lack of free will, much better than sapolsky. Also there’s really no need to make the leap from no free will to not having variable outcomes based on behavior (eg corner offices and jails).
I read an earlier book by Sapolsky about human and primate behavior which was utterly fascinating.
@jon-nyc said in Do we have free will?:
Also there’s really no need to make the leap from no free will to not having variable outcomes based on behavior (eg corner offices and jails).
He doesn’t land on that conclusion, he only brushes past it in his philosophical meanderings.
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Sam Harris had made the most convincing arguments about lack of free will, much better than sapolsky. Also there’s really no need to make the leap from no free will to not having variable outcomes based on behavior (eg corner offices and jails).
I read an earlier book by Sapolsky about human and primate behavior which was utterly fascinating.
@jon-nyc said in Do we have free will?:
Sam Harris had made the most convincing arguments about lack of free will, much better than sapolsky. Also there’s really no need to make the leap from no free will to not having variable outcomes based on behavior (eg corner offices and jails).
I read an earlier book by Sapolsky about human and primate behavior which was utterly fascinating.
I'm reading "Behave" right now. He's such a good writer.
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I think of free will as a point of view, as a way to view the world. It's not a statement that is true or false.
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I chose not to post in this thread
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What about Free Wifi? Does that exist?