There's No Such Thing as Free Will
by Stephen Cave
TheAtlantic June 2016 issue
This essay explores the current state of research on the nature vs nurture question, offering the controversial thesis that we humans don't really have free will, but mitigating that point by claiming that we are better off if we believe in it any way.
Learning concepts such as "fatalism" and how it is different from "determinism", this article taught me a lot, and there are many ideas within it with which I disagree. However, it contains the sort of sweeping grand theories of life that we will encounter repeatedly in this class.
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