Did you decide what to eat this morning? Did you decide what clothes to put on? Did you even decide whether to read this?
It feels as though you decided. But what if everything you think and do is the result of physical processes in your brain.
Your genetics affected the brain you were born with. Your experiences changed it. Your environment continues to influence it. And every electrical and chemical event occurring in your brain has a physical cause.
So where does choice enter the picture?
If your brain is simply following the laws of physics, could you ever have chosen differently? And if you couldn’t have chosen differently, do you really have free will?
There’s another possibility.
What if free will requires something more than a brain?
Tomorrow I’ll explore that question in the next installment of A New Hope for Christianity:
Free Will: Does Free Will Require a Spirit?
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