The Sam Harris puppet show: unraveling the paradox of free will in a deterministic universe

Brenden
The Labyrinth
Published in
5 min readMar 20, 2024

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Sam Harris recently had a clip of him discussing free will and consciousness going around Twitter. I wanted to comment on some of those claims.

Sam Harris:

So, consciousness is just the ground truth, and yet it’s very hard to operationalize and study neuroscientifically or in any other

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Brenden
The Labyrinth

chaotically curious. tragically confused. simulated enigma. i write about the thing.