Authoring our thoughts: my favourite video clip By Jonathan MS Pearce • Jun 29, 2015 • 2 comments The next five minutes of this video of Sam Harris talking at the Sydney Opera House on free will is fantastic. The idea that we choose our language and our thoughts is an incoherent one, and that notion is set out with aplomb by Harris here. Enjoy: Category: Consciousness • Free Will and Determinism Tags: consciousness • free will • language • Sam Harris • thoughts