LeDoux, the original author of the sentence, “You are your synapses,” has recently turned to anthropology to refine his explanation of the brain-self relationship. In other words, you are not simply your brain. For Gazzaniga, that mechanism is the self, the responsible agent. constrains the brain.” In order to explain mind, he argues, we need to think in terms of layers, including “the micro world of subatomic particles” and “the macro world of you and your buddy high-fiving over the Super Bowl.” If mind is composed of tiny particles and social relations that do not obey the laws of physics, then it is a “dynamic system” requiring some mechanism to give it coherence. To counter this idea, Gazzaniga argues that “the mind. A strictly determinist interpretation of his claim that the “brain does enable the mind” might suggest humans are not responsible for our actions. Early in Who’s in Charge: Free Will and the Science of the Brain (2011), Michael Gazzaniga encapsulates the conundrum: “The physiochemical brain does enable the mind in some way we don’t understand and in so doing, it follows the physical laws of the universe just like other matter.” Gazzaniga’s concern is a social one.
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