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> [“Baruch Spinoza, who said, “There is no mind absolute or free will, but the mind is determined for willing this or that by a cause which is determined in its turn by another cause, and this one again by another,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-gazzaniga/baruch-spinoza-who-said-there-is-no-mind-absolute-or-free-will-but/)

[Michael S. Gazzaniga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-gazzaniga/)

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## More by Michael S. Gazzaniga

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-gazzaniga/john-dylan-haynes22-and-his-colleagues-expanded-libet-s-experiments/)

[Michael S. Gazzaniga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-gazzaniga/)

> [“The classic example from biology is the huge, towerlike structure that is built by some ant and termite species. These structures only emerge when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-gazzaniga/the-classic-example-from-biology-is-the-huge-towerlike-structure-that/)

[Michael S. Gazzaniga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-gazzaniga/)

> [“stimulation of the medial frontal cortex gives one the feeling of the urge to move”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-gazzaniga/stimulation-of-the-medial-frontal-cortex-gives-one-the-feeling-of-the/)

[Michael S. Gazzaniga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-gazzaniga/)

> [“Baruch Spinoza, who said, “There is no mind absolute or free will, but the mind is determined for willing this or that by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-gazzaniga/baruch-spinoza-who-said-there-is-no-mind-absolute-or-free-will-but/)

[Michael S. Gazzaniga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-gazzaniga/)

> [“Hare and Tomasello think that the social behavior of chimps is constrained by their temperament, and the human temperament is necessary for more complex…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-gazzaniga/hare-and-tomasello-think-that-the-social-behavior-of-chimps-is/)

[Michael S. Gazzaniga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-gazzaniga/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-gazzaniga/newton-s-laws-aren-t-fundamental-they-are-emergent-that-is-they-are/)

[Michael S. Gazzaniga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-gazzaniga/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-gazzaniga/robert-sapolsky-professor-of-neurology-at-stanford-makes-the/)

[Michael S. Gazzaniga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-gazzaniga/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-gazzaniga/chaos-doesn-t-mean-that-the-system-is-behaving-randomly-it-means-that/)

[Michael S. Gazzaniga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-gazzaniga/)

> [“Reductionism in the physical sciences has been challenged by the principle of emergence. The whole system acquires qualitatively new properties that cannot be predicted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-gazzaniga/reductionism-in-the-physical-sciences-has-been-challenged-by-the/)

[Michael S. Gazzaniga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-gazzaniga/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-gazzaniga/as-evolutionary-neurobiologists-leah-krubitzer-and-jon-kaas-put-it/)

[Michael S. Gazzaniga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-gazzaniga/)

> [“Young children by age three begin to inhibit some of their naturally altruistic behavior. They become more discriminating about whom they help. They share…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-gazzaniga/young-children-by-age-three-begin-to-inhibit-some-of-their-naturally/)

[Michael S. Gazzaniga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-gazzaniga/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-s-gazzaniga/research-has-shown-that-150-200-people-are-the-number-of-people-that/)

[Michael S. Gazzaniga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-s-gazzaniga/)

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