Editor:
I was immensely pleased to read Barry Evans’ recent article about Robert Sapolsky entitled “Free Will Redux.”
Dr. Sapolsky is by far the best, most entertaining lecturer I’ve ever run across. All 25 of his wonderful, two-hour class lectures on how brains work are posted on Stanford’s website and his book Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will is well worth reading.
Free will is something I’ve not believed in since the early sixties but, for many reasons, still see it as probably the most difficult-to-overcome illusion we humans share.
Dr. Sapolsky is undoubtedly the most authoritative person on the planet to make the case against it but even he, by his own admission, regularly fails to live up to the task of forgiving awful people for doing awful things or for being pompously proud of making good decisions.
Douglas George, Eureka
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