FATALISM OR FREEDOM 



perience directly the correlated changes in 

 the structural organization of my cerebral 

 cortex — its metabolism, changes in elec- 

 tric potential, etc. — though I have indi- 

 rect evidence of structural changes here 

 just as truly as I have in the case of the 

 magnet. 



The difference between men and mag- 

 nets is certainly significant and not the 

 least of these differences resides in the 

 fact that human behavior is the expression 

 of an organization one of whose mani- 

 festations is intelligence. The intelligence, 

 with the related bodily changes (whether 

 we know the latter or not), is therefore a 

 real component of the human choice, and 

 an essential component. The behavior 

 would be different if it were not there. Its 

 admission as a causal factor implies no 

 break in the causal sequence, but it does 

 involve the recognition of a factor of a 

 very different sort from that seen in 

 inorganic and simpler physiological be- 

 havior. 



The belief that any one of several 

 courses of action may be chosen is also 

 a real factor in the causal complex result- 

 ing in the behavior finally exhibited. In 

 so far as this factor is operative, belief in 



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