As quoted in "Stray Questions for: David Eagleman" by Blake Wilson in The New York Times (10 July 2009)
“You are not in control of your mind—because you, as a conscious agent, are only part of your mind, living at the mercy of other parts.”
Source: 2010s, Free Will (2012), pp. 37-8
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