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by s1artibartfast 977 days ago
Sapolsky has always been a vocal critics of free will. It is discussed at length in his other books.

His entire career has been researching and publishing the biological basis of behavior

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> Sapolsky has always been a vocal critics of free will. It is discussed at length in his other books.

Interesting; I only read one of his books and didn't pick this up.

I know there is a dedicated section on free will in the book Behave. I havent read every one, so maybe you are talking about what that I havent seen. From my understanding, his academic career and body of literature largely runs through the how genetic environmental factors impact neurochemistry, and uses this to explain why individual actors behave a certainty way.