Annaka Harris

There are all the inputs.

There are countless factors that we could never, I mean, it may as well be an infinite number of factors.

And then in that particular moment, whatever the inputs are to a brain,

the brain is capable of almost an infinite number of outputs, right?

So if I walked in here this morning and you said, would you like water or tea?

And that's a simple decision for me to make.

Okay, all right.

I actually asked for water.

And you didn't have any free will anyway, so it doesn't matter.

I don't hold you responsible for any of it.

You give me this decision, right, to make water or tea.

Go back to the pea tendril for a second.

A pea tendril is capable of growing in a straight line slowly or in a coil quickly.

My brain is capable of all kinds of responses to that question, even though you've given me two options.

You could offer me water or tea and I could just run out of the room screaming if I wanted to.

Never mind.

I don't want to do this.

The fact that the brain is capable, that there's so many inputs and then the brain is capable of so many outputs as a system, what it's hard for us to get our minds around is that it may not be capable of any behavior in every moment in time.

So as a system, it's capable of doing all kinds of things.

And the point I'm making is that