--- product_id: 99229597 title: "Free Will" brand: "free press" price: "SAR 16" currency: SAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 category: "Digital Ebook Purchas" url: https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/99229597-free-will store_origin: SA region: Saudi Arabia --- # Free Will **Brand:** free press **Price:** SAR 16 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Free Will by free press - **How much does it cost?** SAR 16 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.sa](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/99229597-free-will) ## Best For - free press enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted free press brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Free Will - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71N4MNVmvsL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐ Intellectually lazy *by T***K on Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2018* I'm a huge Sam Harris fan - his "Waking Up" podcast is consistently in my weekly listens and the episode with Eric Weinstein remains one of my favorite pieces of audio. However, this book is a huge letdown. It is either poorly written, intentionally hyperbolic or both. It's like a lazy blog post written after a night of drinking.Sam has a deep background in science and neuroscience, so it was startling and disappointing to see him write a manifesto that begins with a thesis and then back-fills it with nothing but personal anecdotes and off-hand observations to support it. He seems to think of free will as something that can only exist in a vacuum - completely devoid of context, internal or external forces, influences or stimuli. He simultaneously embraces the tenants of determinism while dismissing it. He constantly asks the reader/listener "why did you make a decision in your life?" and then removes all agency from our choices by ignoring anything in our collective experience which could inform that choice.A great example of this comes when Sam reminisces about his past involvement in martial arts and his decision to quit. He deliberately asks "why did I do this?" Instead of reasoning through his mindset at the time, the increased value of other interests, the condition of his environment, his own emotional state, etc, he lazily concludes he doesn't know.The whole book is intellectually lazy and sets this discussion of free will back years. If you're a real Sam fan, do yourself a favor and skip this. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interesting, but a bit superficial because the subject and his thesis requires a more serious investigation *by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2017* This is not really a book--it takes about 20 minutes to read. Yet, Dr. Harris, who is a very good writer, makes some interesting points. Since functional magnetic resonance imaging shows that a person's decision to move is registered in the brain several hundred milliseconds before we may be consciously aware of it and our thoughts appear to us without our conscious control, these facts suggest to him that we have no free will.Then what is meditation about? The point of meditation is to watch our thoughts arise and not do anything with them (don't believe, don't disbelieve them, don't be carried away from observing them). It is obvious that this implies there is choice. If one is able to disassociate to some degree from our thinking, therefore not "biting" into our seemingly randomly generated thoughts, we are certainly free to ignore them or, even more interesting, we can discover that the world can be seen without the structure of presupposition.It may be true that if someone has no insight into the workings of their mind, he is pushed, pulled and apparently controlled by conditioned, yet random thinking, peculiar to his/her own unique situation in time and space. But that's like saying meat can only be eaten raw, which was true until we learned to control fire. We do have ways of freeing ourselves from "acting upon" our thinking and this ability will, in fact, generate other thought processes that go beyond our present understanding of mind, either as a "free agent" or as Dr.Harris suggests, a programmed machine. ### ⭐ Baseless *by T***K on Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2018* 1. Sam Harris thinks that a glioblastoma tumor destroyed brain has implications on whether a healthy functioning Brain has free will.2. When asked to think of a random city your mind obeys. Sam Harris thinks that since there is no basis for Why you came up with a random city this just proves free will. Doesn't the goal of thinking of a random city by definition mean you shouldn't have a base? I don't think Sam Harris thought this through.3. Sam Harris thinks this about conservatives "...one gets the distinct sense that if certain conservatives were asked why they weren’t born with club feet or orphaned before the age of five, they would not hesitate to take credit for these accomplishments." I have no idea which conservatives he's talking about. I know these conservatives don't exist.4. 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