[linuxontheweb]

You really need a coherent model of physical reality in order to make much of a comment on the notion of freedom. Any such model will include laws as well as degrees of freedom. So with Sapolsky, we find a biologist who's never had a professional need to come face-to-face with the major issues within relativity theory or within quantum theory. And for those who are able to develop coherent models (e.g. string or M-theoretical), they are faced with a kind of mathematics of such infinite depth and subtlety that all you can do is surrender whatever childish Laplace-demonesque fantasies that you might once have had.

He just thinks: physics is hard and filled with technical stuff that must ultimately be "solvable." Maybe so, but if there are always an infinity of solutions, then there is obviously room for the concept of free will.