Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don’t have free will
After more than 40 years studying humans and other primates, Sapolsky has reached the conclusion that virtually all human behavior is as far beyond our conscious control as the convulsions of a seizure, the division of cells or the beating of our hearts.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-10-17/stanford-scientist-robert-sapolskys-decades-of-study-led-him-to-conclude-we-dont-have-free-will-determined-book #FreeWill #nope #stanford #neurobiology
@Nonog This really isn't very interesting because neuroscientists and evolutionary psych types have been saying this for decades. It goes along with Dawkins' "bag of genes" thinking. Or the philosophers who posit we are mere puppets in someone else's game. You either give up or disbelieve them.
@Nonog "I do what I want and I never do what I don't want." - Rick Sanchez explaining free will
That's it. Your choices may be the product of physical computation but they're yours. And frankly if our choices *weren't* explainable this way we'd be insane.
@Nonog
We may never know.
For certain sorts if knowing.
But what we can do is conduct experiments to discover what the effects of reading or hearing Sapolsky's conclusion are on humans.
How do they behave differently?
Do they act in more Trumpian ways?
What about empathy?
etc etc etc.
@Nonog I choose not to read this.
Well, not right now.