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Life Without Free Will || Robert Sapolsky
The Psychology Podcast
There is No Free Will
The seed map loops of phosphorylation pathways in the amygdala can explain why someone who has experienced sexual assault may unconsciously react in similar environments. Our conscious involvement in feedback loops and cybernetics is often not present. Brain scans have shown that limbic system activity predicts moral decisions more accurately than frontal cortex activity, indicating that our decisions are post hoc rationalizations. Emphasizing this emotionally significant point, it is important to explain the past.
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