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…

— 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…

— Michael S. Gazzaniga

“stimulation of the medial frontal cortex gives one the feeling of the urge to move”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Michael S. Gazzaniga