Turtles All the Way Down: The Biological Case for Universal Basic Income
This is the foundation on which all of our “choices” are built. We like to believe that somewhere above this machinery, there’s a rational agent pulling the levers, but Sapolsky argues that there is no level at which the machinery gives way to something else. It’s neurons running on ancient circuitry all the way up.
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If our decisions are not truly free but are the downstream products of genetics, epigenetics, hormones, parasites, childhood experiences, cultural conditioning, cognitive depletion, and chronic stress — none of which any individual ever chooses — then the most rational response is not to blame individuals for the outcomes those forces produced. The most rational response is to transform the environment.
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
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