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Neither free nor completely determined

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Free will is a hackneyed topic. Science seems to be telling us that free will doesn’t exist because behavior is governed by the brain and the brain operates on physical rules of cause and effect. There is no such thing as uncaused cause, which free will requires. For some people this is an unbearable notion; […]

Tagged: determinism, free will, neurotransmission, randomness, stochastic processes

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