Sam Harris Quotes

I Generally Start Each Day With A Cup Of Coffee Or Tea - Sometimes Two. This Morning, It Was Coffee (two). Why Not Tea? I Am In No Position To Know. I Wanted Coffee More Than I Wanted Tea Today, And I Was Free To Have What I Wanted. Did I Consciously Choose Coffee Over Tea? No. The Choice Was Made For Me By Events In My Brain That I, As The Conscious Witness Of My Thoughts And Actions, Could Not Inspect Or Influence. Could I Have "changed My Mind" And Switched To Tea Before The Coffee Drinker In Me Could Get His Bearings? Yes, But This Impulse Would Also Have Been The Product Of Unconscious Causes. Why Didn't It Arise This Morning? Why Might It Arise In The Future? I Cannot Know. The Intention To Do One Thing And Not Another Does Not Originate In Consciousness - Rather, It Appears In Consciousness, As Does Any Thought Or Impulse That Might Oppose It.

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