Assuming Quote by Rodolfo Llinas

Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.

— Helen Fisher

“how we think of free will. While we all think that we first plan our actions and that they are then willfully carried out,…

— James Fallon

“It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are…

— Stephen Hawking

“Decisions, intentions, efforts, goals, willpower, etc., are causal states of the brain, leading to specific behaviors, and behaviors lead to outcomes in the world.…

— Sam Harris

“Recent experiments in neuroscience support the view that it is our physical brain, following the known laws of science, that determines our actions, and…

— Stephen Hawking

“The popular conception of free will seems to rest on two assumptions: (1) that each of us could have behaved differently than we did…

— Sam Harris

Show me one neuron that has some cellular semblance of free will. And there is no such neuron.

— Robert Sapolsky

We believe that we decide. We do make decisions. But the deeper decisions come from another part of our being that we're not particularly…

— Frederick Lenz

[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.

— Christopher Hitchens

“It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense of it…

— Sam Harris

Everybody acts as if they have free will. They act as if they can make these decisions; do they know they don't? I think…

— Margaret Atwood