- determinism, free will, morality, neurobiology
Biologically-based arguments for determinism and against free will, and what the other side of that rainbow looks like.
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Spare, contemporary, classical in form and earnest.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Robert M. Sapolsky
- First published
- 2023
- Pages
- 520
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group, Random House Children's Books, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781847925534
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“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.”
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