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Pros

Professor sapolsky’s squid is the notion of free will - do we have it or do we not? The book is a meticulous recitation of quality neuroscience studies, that those that we condemn, never had a chance.

There are a few esoteric tangents, but on balance they serve the purpose of covering the full scientific gamut of topics that relate to free will. Skinner eloquently and compellingly advanced his outlook on this matter. In works such as 'about behavio...  Read More

Yah, it really is. It's not too dense, but not overly simplistic either. That’s what our hearts say. Alfredo a. First half…. That goes over big!

Chaos theory shows that complex systems like the human brain and the weather are highly sensitive to initial conditions so at some later time the state of the system is unpredictable from the initial conditions.



Cons

To prove that this machine can add 2+3 to yield 5, we therefore presuppose a lot of math, which is logical circle.

Sapolsky repeatedly repeats the unproven determinist mantra that we are nothing more or less than the sum of that which we could not control. Lawrence says sapolsky, who consistently refutes dualism, inadvertently leans into it due to a lack of clarit...  Read More

We-are-automatons claim is an ultra-deterministic view of the word. With this linguistic confusion between the two terms, all of a sudden, they have intuitions contradicting determinism.

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Quality


As we understood those conditions better we stopped judging sufferers and started treating conditions


And his razor sharp wit leaps from the page hiding some of the best in the footnotes which you simply cannot ignore


Nowhere where you can say 34that is the brain region or the bundle of neurons where unaffected by previous events and other bio...  Read More


I was walking back to my desk to read further and happened to splash some coffee on my yoga mat along the walk i noticed the sp...  Read More

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If someone gives you a compliment it was not free because for one thing it cost money to keep that person alive because they or...  Read More


These processes cost time evolution natural process resource investment etc

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Krishnan says that sapolsky defeats only the libertarian definition of free will which is 34i could have done otherwise than i ...  Read More


For me this half of the book was not as strong as it couldve been the comparisons didnt always work and overall it didnt tie th...  Read More

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    free, determined, many and human.
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  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 67.1% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 752 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 2 2024.

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    So much freer we will be when we release the belief we freely choose


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    As a side note probably irrelevant to many including even the author i find deep symmetry among the philosophy offered in this book and the tenets of buddhism the tao te ching and advaita vedanta


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Why on earth didnt kaleo say 34please see the accompanying pdf for footnote number 1234 over whatever


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    Thats my one and only gripe


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    Not directly because i am the person i was made to be and will likely continue on as i always have


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    However i do believe that ingesting this and other new knowledge can’t help but make changes to my brain’s innate activities which will cause me to adjust to that ‘knowing’ and act accordingly with better understanding of our human nature in regards to living in this world

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