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77. Bill Newsome | Neuroscience, Faith & Free Will

Language of God

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The Choice Is for Reasons

Taid: 'I was raised in a little town of 15 thousand people that was totally segregated. We had white schools, we had black schools. To go o the movie theatre in town, black set in one area, white set in another area' He says it's only when you become conscious of these formerly unconscious influences on your behaviour that there is an element of choice involved. But he doesn't think our brain departs into a cartesian world temporarily and then comes back to the brain so that it can be free. Taid: 'We don't want to be determined just by the neurolapses in our brains.'

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