Robert M. Sapolsky
Do you really make your own choices, or is every action you take pre-programmed by biology and environment? The illusion of free will might be the ultimate biological trick.
Determinism argues that human behavior is the inevitable result of biological factors and environmental circumstances stretching back to before birth.
Proponents of a world without free will suggest that because individuals cannot control their pasts, no one truly deserves praise or punishment.
Critics argue that abandoning free will relies on a flawed understanding of complex systems and dangerously dismisses the human capacity for self-regulation.