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You have no free will at all | Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky (www.youtube.com)

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[–] CrayonRosary 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Sabine Hossenfelder summed it up pretty well. Your brain is electrical with maybe some quantum effects. So its function is either deterministic when it's acting classically, or totally random when acting quantum mechanically. Where is there room for free will?

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[–] BreadstickNinja 1 points 1 month ago

Dualists believe that the mind somehow exists independent of the physical structures of the body, but I've never found that convincing. Sounds like magic.

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