Monday, May 28, 2018

Causation, God, and Free Will

Sam Harris doesn't believe in God or free will. Ben Shapiro believes in both. You might say that Sam Harris stops believing in causation when he starts talking about the beginning of the universe, and you might say Ben Shapiro stops believing in causation when he starts talking about free will.

Here is Sam Harris on free will:
My problem with free will is that there is no account of how causes can happen that lead to further events, whether it's determined or random or combined, that makes sense of what I think most people mean by free will...
its' unfalsifiable in some sense because it's not an empirical datum, it's just an incoherent idea.
 Ben Shapiro on god's existence:
"If you don't want an infinite regress of causes, you have to come to the unactualized actualizer. A thing that just is. A thing that just exists. And this is what we call God.
 Maybe they should both just become Calvinists?