free will
Your Choices Can Be Seen in Your Brain Before You’re Conscious of Them
This week in science: taking nutritional supplements can't prevent depression, a video of a droplet doing something you've never seen water do, and researchers predicted people’s choices before they made them.
You Have No Free Will
According to neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky, all of our actions can be attributed to our biology.
How Many Times Have I Died?
I have one task. One function, one ability. I can drive forward. That’s it.
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Your Destiny Is Controlled by Your Need to Piss
According to researchers Michael R. Ent and Roy F. Baumeister, the one variable that makes individuals believe in free will depends on how bad you need to piss.
Your Smartphone Has Free Will
According to an MIT professor, we can use a Turing test to check in on our free will and the possible free will of our smartphones.
Free Will Can't Possibly Exist, So Feel Free to Do Whatever You Want
Many voices in neuroscience and biology agree that free will, in the traditional definition, is illusory.
Does Poverty Reduce Free Will? Or: The Idea That Being Poor Leads to Bad Decision-Making And Makes You Poorer.
So often in this country, political debates center around the issue of self-control.If poor people would just stop spending their meager resources on new sneakers and televisions,the thinking goes,then maybe they could join the middle-class.James...