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Kevin J. Mitchell

Kevin J. Mitchell is an Irish geneticist and neuroscientist at Trinity College Dublin whose writing examines brain wiring, neurodevelopmental disorders, and human agency. He is the author of Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are and Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will, written for general readers.

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Kevin J. Mitchell is an Irish neuroscientist and geneticist whose career as an author grew directly out of a long effort to connect laboratory science with larger questions about mind, behavior, and human agency. Educated first at Trinity College Dublin, where he graduated in genetics in 1991, he went on to earn a Ph.D. in neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997, studying nervous-system development with Corey Goodman. After postdoctoral research at Berkeley, UCSF, and Stanford, he joined the faculty of Trinity College Dublin in 2002 and later served in senior academic leadership roles there, including Associate Dean of Undergraduate Science Education and Dean of Undergraduate Studies. ((https://www.kjmitchell.com/))

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The story of our lives most definitively does not start with a blank page
-Wired that way: genes do shape behaviours but it’s complicated
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Living organisms are not just static patterns of stuff, they are patterns of processes
-Life, agency, and the evolution of free will
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physical indeterminacy provides room ... to have real causal power in decision-making
-Does Neuroscience Leave Room for Free Will?
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We really are free agents. We make decisions, we choose, we act—we are causal forces in the universe
-Yes, We Have Free Will. No, We Absolutely Do Not
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If we’re asking, Do we really make decisions? or Are we in control when we make decisions?—those are actually biological questions
-Kevin Mitchell on Free Will
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Selfhood is not something you have, it's not something you are, it's something you do, right?
-Ep 109: Nothing in biology makes sense except through time
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the mind is not an object but a process, or a property, or an emergent state of the brain
-Unthinkable: Who’s running the show, you or your brain?
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Biology is not just complicated physics!
-Kevin Mitchell
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There's not just one thing that you could point to. There's lots and lots of things
-Kevin Mitchell: how much of our personality is innate?

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"Kevin Mitchell explains the fundamental role of genetic factors in brain and mind development"

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"Kevin Mitchell's innovative account is required reading for anyone interested in this fundamental question"

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"Kevin Mitchell bravely wades into some of the most politically fraught questions in science"

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"Kevin Mitchell brings clear thinking and scientific rigor to a vital topic"

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"Kevin Mitchell is at the very top of his field, and he writes with exceptional clarity"

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"Humans are not, says Kevin Mitchell, the playthings of predestination"

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