“Chaos doesn’t mean that the system is behaving randomly, it means that it is unpredictable because it has many variables, it is too complex to measure, and even if it could be measured, theoretically the measurement cannot be done accurately… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
“John-Dylan Haynes22 and his colleagues expanded Libet’s experiments in 2008 to show that the outcomes of an inclination can be encoded in brain activity… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share
“The classic example from biology is the huge, towerlike structure that is built by some ant and termite species. These structures only emerge when… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share
“stimulation of the medial frontal cortex gives one the feeling of the urge to move” — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share
“Baruch Spinoza, who said, “There is no mind absolute or free will, but the mind is determined for willing this or that by a… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share
“Hare and Tomasello think that the social behavior of chimps is constrained by their temperament, and the human temperament is necessary for more complex… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share
“Newton’s laws aren’t fundamental, they are emergent; that is, they are what happens when quantum matter aggregates into macroscopic fluids and objects. It is… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share
“Robert Sapolsky, professor of neurology at Stanford, makes the extremely strong statement: “It’s boggling that the legal system’s gold standard for an insanity defense—M’Naghten—is… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share
“Chaos doesn’t mean that the system is behaving randomly, it means that it is unpredictable because it has many variables, it is too complex… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share
“Reductionism in the physical sciences has been challenged by the principle of emergence. The whole system acquires qualitatively new properties that cannot be predicted… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share
“As evolutionary neurobiologists Leah Krubitzer and Jon Kaas put it, Although the phenotype generated is context-dependent, the ability to respond to the context has… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share
“Young children by age three begin to inhibit some of their naturally altruistic behavior. They become more discriminating about whom they help. They share… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share
“Research has shown that 150–200 people are the number of people that can be controlled without an organizational hierarchy.23 It is the number of… — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share
