'Trick Slattery > Quotes

“In an entirely causal universe, what a person thinks is dictated before that person even exists.”
― 'Trick Slattery, Breaking the Free Will Illusion for the Betterment of Humankind

“For the free will debate, it isn’t “predictability” that’s incompatible with free will. It’s causality that is.”
― 'Trick Slattery, Breaking the Free Will Illusion for the Betterment of Humankind

“Determinism doesn’t imply predictability, but it does make it easier to predict some things.”
― 'Trick Slattery, Breaking the Free Will Illusion for the Betterment of Humankind

“A note to the consciousness of the far future, if you exist: The free will concept expressed in this book may be so foreign to you that it may seem absurd to have written an entire book arguing against it. Needless to say, at the time this book was written, such a belief in free will was rampant and causing great harms in the world.”
― 'Trick Slattery, Breaking the Free Will Illusion for the Betterment of Humankind

“You could not have, of your own accord, chosen otherwise than what you did. They could not have, of their own accord, chosen otherwise than what they did.”
― 'Trick Slattery, Breaking the Free Will Illusion for the Betterment of Humankind

“In other words, just because we cannot predict everything to an absoluteness, and certain things are harder to predict than others, does not mean that we cannot predict anything at all.”
― 'Trick Slattery, Breaking the Free Will Illusion for the Betterment of Humankind

“Determinism may not imply predictability, but that in no way means it implies we cannot predict.”
― 'Trick Slattery, Breaking the Free Will Illusion for the Betterment of Humankind