“It turned out that our choices of everything from food to mates result not from some mysterious free will, but rather from billions of neurons calculating probabilities within a split second. Vaunted ‘human intuition’ is in reality ‘pattern recognition’.” (21 Lessons for the 21st Century)
Arguments Against
- The belief in free will results from faulty Logic
- When a biochemical chain reaction makes me desire to press the right switch, I feel that I really want to press the right switch. This is true. I really do want to press it. Yet people erroneously jump to the conclusion that if I want to press it, I choose to want to. This is of course false. I don’t choose my desires. I only feel them, and act accordingly.
See: feelings