Determinism


Slaughterhouse-Five
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
Free Will
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Freedom Evolves
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
The Oxford Handbook of Free Will
Four Views on Free Will (Great Debates in Philosophy)
Free Will: A Very Short Introduction
The Illusion of Conscious Will
Determined to Believe: The Sovereignty of God, Freedom, Faith and Human Responsibility
Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy
Stories of Your Life and Others
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Stranger
The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is our essence, it strikes us as an alien agency within, striving for life and procreation blindly, mediated only secondarily by consciousness. Instinctive sexuality is at our core, interfering constantly with the life of the intellect. To be an individual expression of this will is to lead a life of continual desire, deficiency, and suffering. Pleasure or satisfaction exists only relative to a felt ...more
Christopher Janaway

Abhaidev
Libet’s EEG experiments suggest that we might not have free will. If the results of the experiment are to be believed, then what is the point? What is the fun if everything is determined? Wouldn’t Almighty get bored with us? We are more than our thoughts. And we are certainly way more than our actions. But how and why?
Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

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