All one need do is ask how plausible it is to maintain that every time a person purposefully chooses to do something such as move his fingers to type, an initial neuron just happens to fire at random (as a result of quantum fluctuations, etc.) with the result that finger movements occur that perfectly mesh with or map onto those that are intended by that person. Because such repeated coincidences would literally be, dare we say, miraculous, the only plausible view is that the neuron must not be firing randomly but because of the causal input from a person choosing to act for a purpose.
Stewart Goetz;Charles Taliaferro.
Naturalism (Kindle Locations 506-509). Kindle Edition.
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