
Determined
A Science of Life without Free Will
Robert M. Sapolsky(Author)
The Penguin Press
Published on 17. October 2023
Book
Hardback
528 pages
978-0-525-56097-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Robert Sapolsky's Behave--his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad--pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: we may not grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the physics and chemistry at the base of human behavior, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Now, in Determined, Sapolsky takes his argument all the way, mounting a ... full-frontal assault on the pleasant fantasy that there is some separate self telling our biology what to do. Determined offers a ... synthesis of what we know about how consciousness works--the tight weave between reason and emotion and between stimulus and response in the moment and over a life. One by one, Sapolsky tackles all the major arguments for free will and takes them out, cutting a path through the thickets of chaos and complexity science and quantum physics, as well as touching ground on some of the wilder shores of philosophy"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Penguin Putnam Inc
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
103 B&W GRAPHS & ILLUS THRUOUT
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 46 mm
Weight
900 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-525-56097-5 (9780525560975)
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Person
Robert M. Sapolsky