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A 2023 nonfiction book by American neuroendocrinology researcher Robert Sapolsky concerning the neurological evidence for …
Chapter 1 - Turtles all the way down
Covers the author's impressive credentials, and introduces Laplace's demon and the interrelationship between determinism and free will, and between free will and moral responsibility. He also introduces the case of Phineas Gage, as a demonstration that our thoughts are determined by our brains.