> It makes you honestly question the idea of freewill. Good thing that Robert Sapolsky's new book is coming out next month on the topic! Watching someone go th

> It makes you honestly question the idea of freewill. Good thing that Robert Sapolsky's new book is coming out next month on the topic! Watching someone go through certain kinds of dementia can have a similar effect. Simplify the input and make situations repeatable (from their perspective) on very-short timeframes and it’s hard not to notice how much we behave like automatons. It’s being able to hold a lot of context that makes us seem like we’re ordinarily not, I reckon.