From Daniel Richardson, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, UK
Stafford is optimistic that we do have free will to make choices. I wonder whether he freely chose to believe that. His genes, prior life experience and career researching the brain all shaped his own brain structure to hold that belief: so the true act of free will would be to somehow reject his own optimism for free will. This is rather a paradox.
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Our genes and experience lead us to agree that this paradox is important. But…
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