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Robert Sapolsky, a famous neuroscientist and Stanford professor, argues that there is no freedom, but rather a readable predetermination, which is why Izvestia included his book "Everything is Decided: Life without Free Will" in the main releases of December, which help summarize the year.

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Americans usually write simply, but Sapolsky is hard to read.

"All these bifurcating systems create fractals: their relative degree of complexity is constant and independent of the degree of approximation," said the author.

Sapolsky proves so meticulously that all processes in us, including free will, are the result of a million different factors influencing our consciousness that it is still impossible to keep it all in your head.

Moreover, even to simply follow Sapolsky's thought, one must either bravely trust his chain of reasoning or spend months, if not years, to check his calculations.

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