This is an excellent critique and natural history of some enduring bad ideas about the impossibility of human agency (although I disagree with the very end, positioning the topic beyond the purview of science)
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The New York Review of Books
“Embracing a scientific worldview, for Sapolsky, means accepting that there’s no free will. Every development, including every action of living beings, follows inexorably from the previous state of things.” —Jessica Riskin on the stubborn determinists
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