Mike Heath

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two ways people mistakenly believe they’ve found free will in chaotic systems. First is the idea that if you start with something simple in biology and, unpredictably, out of that comes hugely complex behavior, free will just happened. Second is the belief that if you have a complex behavior that could have arisen from either of two different preceding biological states and there’s no way to ever tell which one caused it, then you can get away with claiming that it wasn’t caused by anything, that the event was free of determinism.
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
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