Sylvano

“We can think about our own thoughts, reason about our own reasons, and communicate with each other through a shared language. We can access the machine code running in our brains by translating high-level abstract concepts into causally efficacious patterns of neural activity. This gives a physical basis for how decisions are made in real time, not just as the outcome of complex physical interactions but also for consciously accessible reasons, and it provides a firm footing for the otherwise troublesome concept of mental causation.”
― Kevin J. Mitchell, Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

“And then, at some point, actors emerged on this stage. Simple lifeless components were somehow assembled into forms that held themselves apart from these general happenings and instead acted on the world. Entities that do things came into existence.”
― Kevin J. Mitchell, Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

“The suggestion that the fundamental logic underlying these methods is broken should be terrifying.”
― Aubrey Clayton, Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science

“we must make a distinction between those who are morally competent and those who are not. This, I have long held, is the fundamental pivot; this is the variety of free will worth wanting.”
― Daniel C. Dennett, Just Deserts: Debating Free Will