Harris on free will: free will defended (Introduction)

by romansh , Monday, June 22, 2015, 14:32 (3235 days ago) @ David Turell

I don't control my brain chemistry any more than you reach inside your computer to control the transistors. I make my brain have thoughts. The neurons respond chemically.
Where exactly does this 'I' that makes your brain have thoughts reside?-> I make my brain produce the conscious thoughts I want to appear. I think there is a marked degree of dualism. None of us can show how consciousness arises from the matter of the brain.
I only have other people's anecdotal stories for consciousness. We also think we see colours, but the physics is difficult to reconcile with our perception.-Dualism as a concept to me seems like an illusion.
> You are right to that extent. I do not directly control each and every neuron or even masses of neurons. But I control what I think, although it is not clear how that is accomplished, since it falls into the black hole of how consciousness arises.-You control what you think? Really?
Not only is not clear how you do it, it is not clear that we do. 
It is clear that we have the perception of control.