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This essay is brought to you by Napkin, the first app for intentional collection and mindful reflection on ideas. It magically connects them by topic, and curates flows of your ideas and insights, ensuring they remain fresh and continue to inspire you daily. Napkin is almost ready for the big launch. Every subscribers get priority access to the Napkin beta. I fucking hate free will debates. They are the lowest-common-denominator of philosophical discussions. They reek of freshman-year philosophy majors, moldy marijuana, and the shallow profundity of Communist trust-fund babies. They are trite, heated, and mostly useless, like co-op board arguments over the color of the rug in the lobby. I fucking love Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford neuroscientist whose books on biological behavior and stress, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, A Primate’s Memoir, and Behave, are some of the best science writing I’ve ever read. He is, in my opinion, the poet laureate of neurobiology. He is at once rigorous and h

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