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MM: BTW - Thanks for turning me on to LeDoux. I'm about half way through Synaptic Self. I'd be further along but I am stuck like an old scratched 78 on Chapter 9, The Lost World, which I have now re-read several times. (That was you wasn't it. I'm sorry to whoever I failed to credit if I got that wrong.)
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Sure Margaret, you’re welcome. And yes, the “lost world of motivation†is a great chapter with lots of fascinating info to digest—I’ve many underlined areas and notes in that chapter. And when you’re finished you may well be even more convinced that free will is an illusion. Oh well.
But keep reading. In his final chapter, “Who Are You,†LeDoux writes:
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In the end, then, the self is maintained by systems that function both explicitly and implicitly. Through explicit systems, we try to willfully dictate who we are, and how we behave.
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Not that I’d expect that “someone here so committed to their beliefs,†as you seem to be regarding free will, could ever be swayed by the neuroscience of LeDoux.
