{"id":149331,"date":"2022-11-02T13:25:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/sam-harris-on-free-will"},"modified":"2022-11-02T13:25:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:25:06","slug":"sam-harris-on-free-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/sam-harris-on-free-will","title":{"rendered":"Sam Harris on \u201cFree Will\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pCofmZlC72g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This lecture was recorded on March 25, 2012 as part of the Distinguished Science Lecture Series hosted by Michael Shermer and presented by The Skeptics Society in California (1992\u20132015).<\/p>\n<p>SAM HARRIS IS THE AUTHOR of the New York Times bestsellers, The Moral Landscape, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. His new book is short (96) pages, to the point, and will change the way we all view free will, as Oliver Sacks wrote: \u201cBrilliant and witty \u2014 and never less than incisive \u2014 Free Will shows that Sam Harris can say more in 13,000 words than most people do in 100,000.\u201d UCSD neuroscientist V.S, Ramachandran notes: \u201cIn this elegant and provocative book, Sam Harris demonstrates \u2014 with great intellectual ferocity and panache \u2014 that free will is an inherently flawed and incoherent concept, even in subjective terms. If he is right, the book will radically change the way we view ourselves as human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"OYVA9bwY3B\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/lectures\/sam-harris-on-free-will\/\">Sam Harris on \u201cFree Will\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Sam Harris on \u201cFree Will\u201d&#8221; &#8212; Skeptic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/lectures\/sam-harris-on-free-will\/embed\/#?secret=UgochASthC#?secret=OYVA9bwY3B\" data-secret=\"OYVA9bwY3B\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Order the book on which this lecture is based: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/zHMx9\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/zHMx9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch some of the past lectures for free online.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/lectures\/\">https:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/lectures\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SUPPORT THE SOCIETY<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/sam-harris-on-free-will\">Continue reading \u201cSam Harris on \u201cFree Will\u201d\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lecture was recorded on March 25, 2012 as part of the Distinguished Science Lecture Series hosted by Michael Shermer and presented by The Skeptics Society in California (1992\u20132015). SAM HARRIS IS THE AUTHOR of the New York Times bestsellers, The Moral Landscape, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. His new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}