Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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I look at Jerry Coyne’s recent blog on determinism and the denial of free will, and a couple of scientific papers related to neurons and synapses.

My previous video on determinism and the synapse:
youtu.be/mUG8y0l_HGY

Jerry Coyne: Another determinist
whyevolutionistrue.com/2020/10/11/sabine-hossenfelder-says-we-dont-have-free-will-but-its-nonexistence-shouldnt-bother-us

The venom of Australian stinging trees
advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/6/38/eabb8828.full.pdf

Convergent evolution of synapse (and neurons)
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4685580