“Reductionism in the physical sciences has been challenged by the principle of emergence. The whole system acquires qualitatively new properties that cannot be predicted from the simple addition of those of its individual components. One might apply the aphorism that… — 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 up to ten seconds before it enters awareness! The brain has acted before its person is conscious of it. Not only that, from looking at the scan, they can make a prediction about what the person… — 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 Image
“stimulation of the medial frontal cortex gives one the feeling of the urge to move” — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
