The familiar expression “hindsight is always 20/20” affirms that looking back on a behavior enables you to understand what previously you weren't cognizant of. And that regardless of whether you could ...

On the basis of three physical axioms, we prove that if the choice of a particular type of spin 1 experiment is not a function of the information accessible to the experimenters, then its outcome is ...

(This article was coauthored with Kathleen D. Vohs and first published in Dialogue, the newsletter for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, alongside a companion piece by John Bargh and ...

Each of us belongs to a world of cause and effect, governed by natural laws. Author and neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky argues that our actions, like everything else, are fully determined by conditions ...

It is a basic premise of most futurology that tomorrow will be profoundly shaped by technological change. But in 2019 there will be a widespread pushback against technological determinism. While some ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Recent discussion of the statistical character of evolutionary theory has centered around two positions: (1) Determinism combined with the ...