Determined
Subtitle: A Science of Life Without Free Will
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2023
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9780525560975
Copyright date: 2023
First sentence: When I was in college, my friends and I had an anecdote that we retold frequently; it went like this (and our retelling was so ritualistic that I suspect this is close to verbatim, forty-five years later): So, it seems that William James was giving a lecture about the nature of life and the universe.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Turtles All the Way Down
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: The Final Three Minutes of a Movie
pagenum: 18; label: 3
title: Where Does Intent Come From?
pagenum: 45; label: 4
title: Willing Willpower: The Myth of Grit
pagenum: 85; label: 5
title: A Primer on Chaos
pagenum: 125; label: 6
title: Is Your Free Will Chaotic?
pagenum: 144; label: 7
title: A Primer on Emergent Complexity
pagenum: 154; label: 8
title: Does Your Free Will Just Emerge?
pagenum: 192; label: 9
title: A Primer on Quantum Indeterminacy
pagenum: 203; label: 10
title: Is Your Free Will Random?
pagenum: 214; label: 10.5
title: Interlude
pagenum: 240; label: 11
title: Will We Run Amok?
pagenum: 245; label: 12
title: The Ancient Gears within Us:  How Does Change Happen?
pagenum: 268; label: 13
title: We Really Have Done this Before
pagenum: 300; label: 14
title: The Joy of Punishment
pagenum: 341; label: 15
title: If You Die Poor
pagenum: 385; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 405; title: Appendix: Neuroscience 101
pagenum: 407; title: Notes
pagenum: 431; title: Illustration Credits
pagenum: 491; title: Index
pagenum: 493