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Determined
A Science of Life Without Free Will
by Robert M. Sapolsky
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Biologically-based arguments for determinism and against free will, and what the other side of that rainbow looks like.
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determinism, free will, morality, neurobiologyPeople
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Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will
2024, Penguin Publishing Group
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Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will
2024, Penguin Random House
in English
152992006X 9781529920062
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Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will
2023, Penguin Publishing Group
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Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will
2023, Random House Children's Books
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Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will
2023, Random House Children's Books
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Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will
2023, Penguin Publishing Group
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Book Details
First Sentence
"When I was in college, my friends and I had an anecdote that we retold frequently; it went like this (and our retelling was so ritualistic that I suspect this is close to verbatim, forty-five years later): So, it seems that William James was giving a lecture about the nature of life and the universe."
Table of Contents
1. Turtles All the Way Down
2. The Final Three Minutes of a Movie
3. Where Does Intent Come From?
4. Willing Willpower: The Myth of Grit
5. A Primer on Chaos
6. Is Your Free Will Chaotic?
7. A Primer on Emergent Complexity
8. Does Your Free Will Just Emerge?
9. A Primer on Quantum Indeterminacy
10. Is Your Free Will Random?
10.5. Interlude
11. Will We Run Amok?
12. The Ancient Gears within Us: How Does Change Happen?
13. We Really Have Done this Before
14. The Joy of Punishment
15. If You Die Poor
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Neuroscience 101
Notes
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