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Don’t Panic, but Robert Sapolsky Says There’s No Free Will

Inquiring Minds

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Unpredictability Does Not Equal Undeterminism

The idea of free will was erroneously linked to unpredictability by various thinkers, including founders of chaos theory. The critical mistake made is the assumption that unpredictability inherently means that outcomes are undetermined, which confuses the concepts and misrepresents the nature of free will.

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