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: Below is list of quotes from scientific notables on the subject 'free will is an illusion.' Susan Blackmore's book 'The Meme Machine' is the first offering scientist I have come across who shares a way of living with this idea socially. I'm looking for others who share the belief that free will is an illusion and also desire to integrate this view of free will into their social lives. : The astonishing hypothesis...is that you, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast embly of nerve cells and their ociated molecules. Francis Crick, Nobel Prize Winner; The principle of causality must be held to extend even to the highest achievements of the human soul. Max Planck, Nobel Prize Winner; And when you mention people who speak of such a thing as free will in nature it is difficult for me to find a suitable reply. The idea is of course preposterous. Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize Winner; Thus, it is the notion of its autonomy that removes free will and its final arbiter, the soul, from the realm of natural properties of persons. Gunther Stent, Professor of Molecular Biology University of California, Berkeley; People can unconsciously think, anticipate consequences, and make and carry out plans. Joseph Weiss, Professor of Psychiatry, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco ; I don't believe there is any such thing as "the mind." Vernon Mountcastle, Professor of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ; Free will is an illusion. Jason Brown, Professor of Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine.

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