
Consciousness
Free Will Is Only an Illusion if You Are, Too
New research findings, combined with philosophy, suggest free will is real but may not operate in the ways people expect
Alessandra Buccella is a philosopher at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Brain and Behavioral Sciences at Chapman University. She studies the theoretical foundations of cognitive neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence.
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