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Being Changed Is Compatible With No Free Will

The 'why argue' objection also rests on the false belief that nothing can change without free will; in fact attempting to change someone, and being changed by their argument, is fully compatible with determinism—you do not choose to change, you are changed, entirely as a function of who you turned out to be going into the experience.

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Speaker

Robert Sapolsky

Evidence Quote

how much of this is pivoting on this incorrect belief that nothing can change if there's no free will... you were changed entirely as a function of who you turned out to be going into that experience

Source

360 - We Really Don T Have Free WillMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:19:39 AM

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