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Free Will Lives at the Psychological Level
Denying free will amounts to taking a physicist's view of psychology and eliminating psychology altogether; while the decision-making apparatus is itself evolved and not chosen, given that apparatus the individual genuinely chooses within it, and the existence of agentive decision-makers requires keeping levels straight rather than reducing everything to deterministic physics—moreover, no one truly behaves as if free will is false, since they still get angry at others and worry over decisions.
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Michael TomaselloEvidence Quote
“unless you want to eliminate psychology, you need that individual making the decision. And it's not a homunculus, it's just organized as a control system.”
Source
225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency— Sean Carroll's MindscapeCreated: 6/13/2026, 12:05:28 AM
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