Determined · A Science of Life without Free Will by Sapolsky, Robert M. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Also by Robert M. Sapolsky Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents 1. Turtles All the Way Down

Styles of Views: Whom I Will Be Disagreeing With Ground Rules and Definitions And Why Does This Matter?

2. The Final Three Minutes of a Movie

Three Hundred Milliseconds You Guys Proclaim the Death of Free Will, Based on Spontaneous Finger Movements? 60 Percent? Really? What Is Consciousness? Free Won’t: The Power to Veto Just in Case You Thought This Was All Academic The Death of Free Will in the Shadow of Intent

3. Where Does Intent Come From?

Seconds to Minutes Before Minutes to Days Before Weeks to Years Before Back to Adolescence And Childhood Back to the Womb Back to Your Very Beginning: Genes Back Centuries: The Sort of People You Come From Oh, Why Not? Evolution Seamless

4. Willing Willpower: The Myth of Grit

Was-ness What You Were Given and What You Do with It Doing the Right Thing When It’s the Harder Thing to Do The Cognitive PFC The Social PFC Cognition versus Emotion, Cognition and Emotion, or Cognition via Emotion? The Same Exact Stuff The Legacy of the Preceding Seconds to an Hour The Legacy of the Preceding Hours to Days The Legacy of the Preceding Days to Years The Legacy of the Time of Pimples Further Back The Legacy of the Genes You Were Handed, and Their Evolution The Cultural Legacy Bequeathed to Your PFC by Your Ancestors The Death of the Myth of Freely Chosen Grit

5. A Primer on Chaos

Back When Things Made Sense Chaotic Unpredictability Chaoticism You Can Do at Home

6. Is Your Free Will Chaotic?

The Age of Chaos Wrong Conclusion #1: The Freely Choosing Cloud Wrong Conclusion #2: A Causeless Fire Conclusion

7. A Primer on Emergent Complexity

Why We’re Not Talking about Michael Jackson Moonwalking Informative Scouts Followed by Random Encounters Fitting Infinitely Large Things into Infinitely Small Spaces Let’s Design a Town Talk Locally, but Don’t Forget to Also Talk Globally Now and Then Emergence Deluxe

8. Does Your Free Will Just Emerge?

First, What All of Us Can Agree On Problem #1: Chaotic Missteps Redux Problem #2: Orphans Running Wild Problem #3: Defying Gravity At Last, Some Conclusions

9. A Primer on Quantum Indeterminacy

Undetermined Randomness Low-Rent Randomness: Brownian Motion Quantum Indeterminacy Wave/Particle Duality Entanglement and nonlocality Quantum Tunneling

10. Is Your Free Will Random?

10.5. Interlude 11. Will We Run Amok?

Hard Determinists Careening through the Streets An Ideal Model System Atheists Gone Wild Saying versus Doing Old, Rich, Socialized Women versus Young, Poor, Solitary Guys When You’re Primed to Be Good for Goodness’ Sake One Atheist at a Time versus an Infestation of Them Who Needs the Help? Into the Valley of the Indifferent

12. The Ancient Gears within Us: How Does Change Happen?

Protecting Your Gill The Learned Aplysia Detecting a Coincidence When They Become Thems Speeding Up and Slowing Down

13. We Really Have Done This Before

The Falling Sickness Putting Our Money Where Our Mouth Is Generators and Refrigerators So What Is Actually Wrong? A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words—on Television Snapshots MIDMETAMORPHOSIS Conclusion

14. The Joy of Punishment

Justice Served I Those Bleeding-Heart Liberals Justice Served II Reconciliation and Restorative Justice as Band-Aids Justice Served III Punishing Cheaters Justice Served IV Delicious, Whether Served Hot or Cold Justice Served V

15. If You Die Poor

What You’d Give Up Along with Free Will A Liberatory Science (without Tongue in Cheek) Over and Over and Over

Acknowledgments Appendix

Neuroscience 101 One Neuron at a Time Two Neurons at a Time: Synaptic Communication More Than Two Neurons at a Time One More Round of Scaling Up

Notes Illustration Credits Index About the Author