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4 unusual facts about Martin Heisenberg


Heisenberg

Martin Heisenberg (born 1940), German neurobiologist and geneticist

Martin Heisenberg

Martin Heisenberg is married to Apollonia, Countess of Eulenburg, a niece of philosopher and physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and the politician Richard von Weizsäcker.

Two-stage model of free will

The most recent thinker to describe a two-stage model is Martin Heisenberg (son of physicist Werner Heisenberg), chair of the University of Würzburg's BioZentrum genetics and neurobiology section.

The mind's "two-stage" ability to be creative and free is likely evolved indirectly from Mayr's "two-step" process and then directly from the combination of random and lawlike behavior in the lower animals pointed out by Martin Heisenberg.



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