[Free will is the] “internal forces I do not understand.” ~ Marvin Minsky, quoted in Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky Robert Sapolsky, biologist, primatologist, and endocrinologist, has transcended his ...
Review of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. By Robert M. Sapolsky. Penguin Press. 790 pp. $35. Behave should be required reading for anyone—and everyone—interested in why human ...
[Free will is the] “ internal forces I do not understand.” ~ Marvin Minsky, quoted in Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky Robert Sapolsky, biologist, primatologist, and endocrinologist, has transcended his ...
After studying humans and other primates for 40 years, Stanford neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky has concluded that many factors beyond our control influence our choices and behaviors, leaving free will ...
Robert Sapolsky (2023) and Kevin Mitchell (2023) are both biologists who have written books that come to opposite conclusions about the existence of free will. Sapolsky's book Determined argues that ...
The release of Determined, a new book by renowned Stanford professor of primate behavior and neuroscience Robert M. Sapolsky, has catapulted him into the middle of an ancient debate: whether humans ...
In “Determine: A Science of Life Without Free Will,” the neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky takes up a question that philosophers have asked for eons, and finds an answer in how our brains work. Sapolsky ...
Robert Sapolsky, a 66-year-old Stanford neurobiologist, has a controversial view on the nature of human existence: he doesn’t think “free will” exists. At all. A MacArthur “genius” grant recipient at ...
In the book’s introduction, author and neuroendocrinologist Robert Sapolsky explains his fascination with the biology of violence and other dark parts of human behavior. Build data‑driven, connected R ...