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Behavior
Why We Have Free Will
Neurons fire in your head before you become aware that you have made a decision. But this discovery does not mean you are a “biochemical puppet”
Eddy Nahmias is a professor in the department of philosophy and the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University.
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