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Aug 26, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Against Willpower nautil.us/issue/45/power… via @NautilusMag
@NautilusMag This thoughtful essay argues that "will-power" is a pre-scientific concept and refers to a hodepodge of related functions
@NautilusMag It would be interesting to ask which of these functions could be defined in animals (e.g., delay discounting), to see if the separate components of will-power could be anchored in that way

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very excited to share this new preprint from me and Nick Cheney 😀🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2407.15908-
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Really excited to have this new preprint out 😊, with @HenryDPotter: 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 – 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
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In neuroscience, our search for the causes of behavior is often just = a search for the underlying neural mechanisms. Especially when we can use tools like optogenetics to show some activity is "necessary and sufficient" for that behavior to occur
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Autism: The Truth is (not) Out There - I wrote this ten years ago and it is, depressingly, as relevant as ever...wiringthebrain.com/2014/10/autism…
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I often get asked where I would draw the line of which kinds of creatures have "agency" or "free will"
I tend to only speak of "free will" in relation to humans, put purely because of the historical baggage that comes with the term. "Agency" I see as co-extensive with life...
Though some creatures have more agency than others, or maybe different kinds that vary along several dimensions. (Like behavioral flexibility, ability to cope with novel situations, time horizons of control, etc)
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A lot of people ask me about my daily routine for neuro-optimising well-being and productivity*

*Narrator: no had in fact asked…

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I wake up at stupid o’clock and curse the darkness of the Irish winter. Will I be getting direct sunlight in my eyes this morning? I will in me hole. We won’t see the sun again till February.
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One motivator for arguing against free will seems to be the problem of moral luck and its undermining of moral responsibility. 1/n
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...so how could it be right to blame or punish them for doing acts we call "crimes" when all these antecedent causes were really the determinants of their actions? 3/n
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