{"id":174485,"date":"2023-10-20T03:04:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/stanford-scientist-after-decades-of-study-concludes-we-dont-have-free-will"},"modified":"2023-10-20T03:04:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:04:32","slug":"stanford-scientist-after-decades-of-study-concludes-we-dont-have-free-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/stanford-scientist-after-decades-of-study-concludes-we-dont-have-free-will","title":{"rendered":"Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don\u2019t have free will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stanford-scientist-after-decades-of-study-concludes-we-dont-have-free-will2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before epilepsy was understood to be a neurological condition, people believed it was caused by the moon, or by phlegm in the brain. They condemned seizures as evidence of witchcraft or demonic possession, and killed or castrated sufferers to prevent them from passing tainted blood to a new generation.<\/p>\n<p>Today we know epilepsy is a disease. By and large, it\u2019s accepted that a person who causes a fatal traffic accident while in the grip of a seizure should not be charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s good, says Stanford University neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky. That\u2019s progress. But there\u2019s still a long way to go.<\/p>\n<p>After more than 40 years studying humans and other primates, Sapolsky has reached the\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>You may think you chose to read this, but Stanford scientist Robert Sapolsky would disagree. He says virtually all human behavior is beyond our conscious control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before epilepsy was understood to be a neurological condition, people believed it was caused by the moon, or by phlegm in the brain. They condemned seizures as evidence of witchcraft or demonic possession, and killed or castrated sufferers to prevent them from passing tainted blood to a new generation. Today we know epilepsy is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}