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Show me a neuron (or brain) whose generation of a behavior is independent of the sum of its biological past, and for the purposes of this book, you’ve demonstrated free will. The point of the first half of this book is to establish that this can’t be shown.
Robert M. Sapolsky • Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
The Relativistic Brain: How it works and why it cannot be simulated by a Turing machine (Brains, computers, society)
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if you believe in computational functionalism, then a sufficiently accurate simulation of your connectome will be conscious (whether it will be your mind, let alone a sane rather than a mad mind, is a different matter). If you believe that consciousness is a structure of causal relationships, an essential aspect of reality tied to its physical
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
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I, as the conscious witness of my experience,
Sam Harris • Free Will
Beyond Evolutionary Psychology: How and Why Neuropsychological Modules Arise (Culture and Psychology)
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