https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd Period 1 Question 3: Free Will en-us 2016-08-24 15:32:28 UTC 2016-08-24 16:31:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lovecoffee.png https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119629797 Sam Harris analyzes the two criminals, Hayes and Komisarjevsky's minds. The two criminals claimed that they regretted their actions and they didn't know what came over them while committing their crimes. They explained they simply had the urge, and it "came over them." g'day]]> 2016-08-24 16:21:10 UTC https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119629797 https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119630223 He states the fact that our decisions can be made 7-10 seconds before we "know" we made it. He shows this when he says, "if you don't know what your soul is going to do next, you are not in control" (Harris 12). ]]> 2016-08-24 16:22:35 UTC https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119630223 https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119630250 Sam Harris uses evidence that physiologist Benjamin Libet used EEG to show that activity in the brain's motor cortex can be detected before a person feels that he has decided to move. This support is most convincing because your brain knows what you're thinking before you do. His least convincing argument is that criminals should not be punished.]]> 2016-08-24 16:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119630250 https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119630261 Sam Harris uses a disturbing example of two criminals, Hayes and Komisarjevsky, to enable his audience to think about what he says, stating that Komisarjevsky was repeatedly raped as a child, influencing his actions toward the family he murdered.]]> 2016-08-24 16:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119630261 https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119630287 Sam Harris illustrates the illusion of free will by explaining how the brain knows what action we will perform before we have processed it. The most convincing piece of evidence was "two regions of the brain had information on what action would be taken a full 7-10 seconds before the decision was consciously made" (Harris 8,9). This was most convincing because it was a physical lab conducted by a scientist.]]> 2016-08-24 16:22:50 UTC https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119630287 https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119630304 In Free Will Sam Harris uses the examples of two criminals, Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky, to show how past actions can be responsible for future events. Both men were abused in their childhood years, and this might have affected their behavior as adults. He explains that "these men cannot not know why they are as they are" because they lack control over their lives. ]]> 2016-08-24 16:22:55 UTC https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119630304 https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119630406 He uses experimental evidence, in which the scientists could predict what the test subject would choose, seconds before they chose. He also described crimes that are rooted from mental instability and childhood vicissitudes. The most convincing evidence was the 80% percent success rate of his experiments. The least convincing was when his evidence was vague. ]]> 2016-08-24 16:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119630406 https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119630546 Sam Harris explains how the physiologyst has studied the brain and that the brain is capable of knowing what you are going to do before you are consciously doing it. "EEG to show that activity in the brain's motor cortex can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move" (Page. 8).]]> 2016-08-24 16:23:42 UTC https://padlet.com/charrington4/h5t6n4rt63hd/wish/119630546