Ranked: Is There Fee Will? How Much Control Do We Have?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: Is There Fee Will? How Much Control Do We Have?


The Question:

  1. Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
  2. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
  3. The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours by Chantel Prat
  4. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker


Limits To Control:

  1. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
  2. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It by Will Storr
  3. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
  4. Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It by Max H. Bazerman, Ann E. Tenbrunsel
  5. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
  6. Screwed Up Somehow But Not Stupid: Life With a Learning Disability by Peter Flom

How Control Is Taken Away: