Free Will Sam Harris Analysis

Harris, Sam. Free Will. New York: A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2012. Print In Free Will, Sam Harris discusses free will and why he believes we don't have any free will. Sam Harris explores the concepts of free will weather it is a reality for people. He argues that free will is an illusion. He uses many examples to prove his point, he states that some people can't control how they act or what they do. He states the question “if you can't control your next thought and you don't know what it is until it arises, where is your freedom of will ?”. A Person is constantly thinking, some of it will has nothing to do with what is happening in the present. When a person is doing something, whether it is playing a sport having a conversation, committing a crime etc., that person will not be conscious of their actions till moments after it's over. The perfect example is when people people attempt to commit suicide, most people who survive say that the

“Zimbardo's Apple.” Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 7.1 (2007):
251-254. Wiley Online Library. Web. 28 Mar. 2016
In this source Mastroianni discusses Zimbardo’s Apple. Zimbardo Talks about about how he believes that there are no such thing as bad apples when talking about the Abu Ghraib tortures and the Stanford prison experiment. He says that there are only bad barrels, meaning it is where you place a person. For instance, in the Abu Ghraib tortures some of the women and men were placed in a place of authority over the prisoners they were holding. The soldiers weren't bad people until they were in the prison which made them become bad people. He is arguing that when you place people in situations where they have authority over someone else, chances are they will misuse it. In the stanford prison experiment, Zimbardo used perfectly fine college students from all over to construct his study. Most of the Guards in the study behaves the same way that the soldiers behaved at Abu