Without Free Will

Robert Sapolsky says the brain decides before we are informed

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Robert Sapolsky is on the screen, being interviewed about whether or not there is free will. He doesn’t think so. The usual argument for free will is the demonstration of it. “I will myself to pick up this book. I pick it up. How can you argue with that?” Sapolsky will pick out which student is going to do that, and he has a…