From John Clark
You ask what would happen if we discovered we had no free will (8 August, p 28). Free will is an idea so bad it’s not even wrong.
People, just like everything else, behave the way they do because of cause and effect and thus are deterministic, or they don’t behave because of cause and effect and thus are random.
Tell me what the term “free will” means and I’ll tell you what would result if we find out that humans don’t have it.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US
