…how we think of free will. While we all think that we first plan our actions and that they are then willfully carried out, in some cases a part of our frontal lobe may actually “decide” first, unconsciously, that we will perform an act, and after we carry out the act we fool ourselves into thinking we planned it.
“We are not simply good or evil, right or wrong, kind or vindictive, benign or dangerous. We are not simply the product of biology, either, and science can only tell us part of the story.”
“In my mind, we are machines, albeit machines we don’t understand all that well, and I have believed for decades that we have very little control over what we do and who we are.”