Stop myself from shopping? I can’t! I have no free will


Of course we have no free will! — Dreamstime/TNS

FINALLY, a scientist who studies human behaviour has said the quiet part out loud: The idea that people have free will is a myth.

In his new book, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, Stanford University neurobiologist and MacArthur “genius” grant winner Robert Sapolsky contends that almost all human behaviour is the result of a complex of neurochemical influences beyond our control.

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