“To say that ‘it wasn't your mind that did it, but your molecules’ is as meaningless as to say that ‘it wasn't the Manchester City football team that won the Premiership, but their molecules’.”
great chapter about the #freewill in
#TheBookOfMinds by @philipcball
#brain #neuroscience
*We sometimes struggle to do this ourselves, being more ready to attribute a false belief to a cognitive deficit - they must be really stupid!' - than to allow that there's a coherent way to see the world in which that belief could be true. Admittedly, the credulity that some people exhibit towards conspiracy theories tests that ability to extremes.
@philipcball #TheBookOfMinds
It takes a more sophisticated Theory of Mind to imagine that another individual holds a false belief. It means conceiving of a state of affairs that you know to be untrue, while at the same time retaining knowledge of the situation you know is true.*
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Umberto Tilomelli