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Necessity is the Mother

If you’re unfamiliar with the neuroscience behind the illusion of free will, YouTube [Sam Harris on “Free Will”]. He does a good job of addressing the idea of free will, and points out enough compelling evidence to prove that free will is an illusion. Next, please YouTube [Sam Harris on His Debate with Daniel Dennett […]

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Nov 15, 2014 by Carl Abbott
Filed Under: Observations Tagged With: belief, civilization, emergent property, fairness instinct, freewill, hypocrisy, instinct, knowing, neuroscience, nothingness and existence, social instinct, symptoms point of view, thinking

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