选择信号：神经科学家Uri Maoz如何探究自由意志

Does free will exist? Neuroscientist Uri Maoz devises experiments to reveal how— or whether—the brain makes decisions. By Sarah Scoles Portrait by Chris Lake Uri Maoz loved doing his human research, back when he was getting his PhD. He was studying a very specific topic in computational neu- roscience: how the brain instructs our arms to move and how our gray matter in turn perceives that motion. Then his professor asked him to deliver an under- grad lecture. Maoz assumed his boss was going to tell him exactly what to do, or at least throw some PowerPoint slides his way. But no. Maoz had free rein to teach anything, as long as it was relevant to the students. …