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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

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Is There a Source of Free Will?

There's lots of magic i would say so far because we don't really understand uh how all of this is exactly played out at a. Scientists are working hard and disagree about some of the details under the hood of what i just described but i think there's quite a bit of magic actually. There's also um stochastic firing of neurons neurons they're not purely digital in the sense that there is analog communication between neurons not just digital. The more variability there is, the more potential there is for your brain to be able to be information bearing or maybe noise is the source of free will.

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