Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #185" video.

  1. Coming in at 1:32 "Some sense of agency..." What is hard to wrap one's head around is that the human mind has the ability to conceptualize many, many abstract thoughts. But what I think Sam Harris is doing is throwing a 'Jackson Pollack' painted-thought at us about free will. We see the big picture. We understand what he wants to say. But we can't understand how he got there. What humans of average intelligence can understand, and I think everyone agrees that I'm speaking about me, myself and I, is that we cannot get past the fact that something else could be involved in how we navigate through life. But what is interesting about listening to Sam Harris is that he brings us to the lens of the telescope he's looking through and let's us look at what he sees, and he even explains it to us. But it's so cerebral that is goes over our heads a lot of the time. But that's what I like about this debate: Lex speaks in primary colors; Sam speaks with a whole palette full of colors. Both of you guys show us how intrinsic life as we know it is: opaque layer upon layer of conundrums that open up into enigmas and exist somewhere in our collective consciousness as mysteries. Human beings probably will never cease to debate, and never, ever find the keys to open the doors of perception. My guess it that free will be a challenge that will tease our brains for centuries, and Sam Harris will be looked upon as one of the first explorers into this sorcer's realm. The sting of battle in whichever form, war, science, philosophy will forever be the background music to our individual paths through this thing we call our existence. Nonetheless, pioneers like Sam Harris will help humanity continue its journey to try to unravel and reveal what free will is made of, or come from, or who its master really is: us or X.
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  2. I would love to be able to put this question about free will to both of you. I do a lot of different kinds of work, somebody once said I was an renaissance artist, but I think it's more of jack of all trades and master of none. That being said, I'm at this minute putting together ideas for my next surrealist painting. I've done 6 or 7 and I want to do about 15 so I can have a show. Now the thing that throws me is that if I don't have free will, and imagine the painting I am about to paint, then who is doing it? I would sound like I lost my mind if someone asked me where I get my ideas from and I said it's not me, something else is giving me the ideas, I only paint what someone or something else has decided. I don't have free will in deciding what I paint, those ideas are someone else's. Do you see what I mean? If one creates things, it's the person who goes into their mind and tries to flesh out the idea into an image, etc.
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