Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will — Quotes
Imported from: Clippings/Sapolsky-Determined.md
Notes built from this: free-will-and-moral-responsibility, sapolsky-determined-part-1
Author: Robert M. Sapolsky Source: Goodreads
21 quotes, one page each — split at import because this page carried more quoted words than the wiki publishes on a single page.
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Book page: sapolsky-determined-part-1
- “Sociality, social interactions, organisms being social with each…”
- “You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in…”
- “We are nothing more or less than the…”
- “Sam Harris argues convincingly that it’s impossible to…”
- “If that’s the case for some baboon, just…”
- “Another literature compares cultures of rain forest versus…”
- “There’s our nation with its cult of meritocracy…”
- “In order to prove there’s free will, you…”
- “In 1911, the poet Morris Rosenfeld wrote the…”
- “Depression is often framed as a sufferer having…”
- “There is no justifiable “deserve.” The only possible…”
- “Frontal competence even declines if it’s keeping you…”
- “I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of…”
- “As one finding that is beyond cool, Chinese…”
- “Take an average heterosexual male and expose him…”
- “Thus, essentially every aspect of your childhood—good, bad…”
- “Let me state this most broadly, probably at…”
- “What the science in this book ultimately teaches…”
- “It’s impossible to successfully will yourself to have…”
- “One would think that the adverse effects of…”
- “Note: I won’t be considering any theologically based…”
Wiki links
- sapolsky-determined — wiki page for this book
- free-will-and-moral-responsibility — the book’s central argument: cumulative biological luck leaves no room for desert or blame
- childhood-adversity-and-the-brain — “every aspect of your childhood… sculpted the adult brain you have”; adversity accelerates brain maturation, closing the window early
- stress-and-cognition — frontal competence declines under distraction; surgeon’s birthday finding
- dual-process-cognition — the frontal cortex / amygdala architecture underlying the whole determinism argument
- collectivist-vs-individualist — rice-region vs. wheat-region finding: Chinese from rice regions accommodate obstacles, wheat regions remove them
- genes-are-not-destiny — determinism as cumulative environmental and biological luck, not hard genetic essentialism
- sapolsky-behave — companion book; the neuroscience of behavior that Determined builds its argument on