"there are other factors at work. Factors that shape character, personality, wants and needs, including genetics, and consequently, decisions that are made by the individual.
Yet say decision making is not dictated by our environment. You lost me. Influenced I'd agree with.
"Our thoughts though abstract and vaporous in form, are determined by the actions of specific neuronal circuits in our brains. "
There is evidence to the contrary. And as best as I can determine it's all very fuzzy, both sides.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
