The Biology of Choice

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Jun 282011
 

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/the-brain-on-trial/8520/2/ As with Tourette’s sufferers, split-brain patients, and those with choreic movements, Kenneth’s case illustrates that high-level behaviors can take place in the absence of free will. Like your heartbeat, breathing, blinking, and swallowing, even your mental machinery can run on autopilot. The crux of the question is whether all of your actions are fundamentally [more …]