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Free Will (book)

Free Will is a 2012 book by the American neuroscientist Sam Harris, in which the author argues that the truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of political and social freedom, and can as well as should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.


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“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”

Sam Harris book Free Will (book)

Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), p. 14

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“You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”

Sam Harris book Free Will (book)

Free Will
Variant: You can do what you decide to do—but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

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“A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.”

Sam Harris book Free Will (book)

Source: Free Will

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