Do we determine our own free will? Causality and physics from our pop philosophy guru. By Lisa McLellan
There is no such thing as free will…as far as we know. Don’t believe me? Read this and prove me wrong!
It is widely accepted that we can explain why any physical event has happened by citing some other prior physical event. The sum of these prior events will make the first event inevitable.
For example we can work out the trajectory of a snooker ball by looking at the speed and direction of the cue ball that hit it, and the angle at which the two hit. The way the cue ball moved can also be worked out from the force and angle with which the snooker cue hit it. So once we have done this, we need do nothing further. We will 
have explained fully the cause of the event in question – accidentally potting the black, for instance. Continue reading
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