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#EdWalker making a very useful formulation of free will.How, other than #Sapolsky's formulation as seen by #NikhilKrishnan below, do you conceive of #FreeWill?
" ... A man, Sapolsky invites us to imagine, “pulls the trigger of a gun.” That’s one description. Another is that “the muscles in his index finger contracted.” Why? “Because they were stimulated by a neuron,” which was in turn “stimulated by the neuron just upstream. . . . And so on.” (... continued)
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/01/13/coming-to-grips-with-free-will/