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“We can freely imagine several teleological futures before we act, each with a roughly equal likelihood of being enacted, and then evaluate them and reach our decision as to which is best. The smarter, the more imaginative and creative we are, the more futures we can conceive. Until we carry out our evaluation of the futures that we have freely conceived, we cannot know what we will do. An android cannot conceive futures, and carries out a program written for him by its Creator (programmer). Sam Harris keeps slipping into the tacit claim that humans are programmed machines rather than free people.”

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Book:The Sam Harris Delusion
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“If we believe that we have control over life, we’re living in an illusion. And if we attempt to protect, strengthen, and expand this illusion, our influence on what’s genuinely happening becomes increasingly smaller; mired in resistance, our life would become a cycle of anxious complaining, postponed decisions, and missed opportunities.”

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Book:The Mosaic: Realizations about Our Life, Consciousness, and Existence
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