My mother, who has a Master’s Degree in Biology, and extensive experience in field research (wildlife biology) once talked about the possibility that the way we experienced what we call free will was an “emergent property” during a discussion we had. I pointed out that everything in the brain is a result of neurons firing, and so saying that any process was emergent was just repeating something we already knew. My exact phrase was “correct, but unhelpful”.
My mother, who has a Master’s Degree in Biology, and extensive experience in field research (wildlife biology) once talked about the possibility that the way we experienced what we call free will was an “emergent property” during a discussion we had. I pointed out that everything in the brain is a result of neurons firing, and so saying that any process was emergent was just repeating something we already knew. My exact phrase was “correct, but unhelpful”.