neurosurgery Robert Sapolsky, ‘it seems simply impossible to think there is free will.’ Most of those who argue that we do have free will believe its power to be limited, marginal or conditional. The illusion that we have it in the way we think we do is perhaps the most important and most devious job of the self. Confabulation, as it emerged on the night of the Devil, brings with it two ideas that are important for our journey. First, the extent to which the self is a ‘story’. It turns the chaos of the outside and our inner worlds into a highly simplified narrative which, if we’re mentally
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