carl's Reviews > Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will

** spoiler alert ** Wait. You're saying John Calvin was right? What the hell am I supposed to with that?

I've commented on this book before reading because hearing lectures and interviews on YouTube piqued my interest.

When some unrelated physicists pointed out that if you're a materialist it's the most sensible conclusion. After all the Big Bang begins the movement of all other particles.

Those particles in a long 13 billion year chain brought us here. The basic movement of particles are not only traceable they are predictable.

Our neurology, our body, is identical with us. That neurology is driven by electrochemical processes. The elements of 'electro' and 'chemical' are driven by molecules. Those molecules are driven by atoms and in turn particles.

That thought you just had has its roots in a 13 billion year old super expansion of particles. One after another until now.

After all where did that thought you just had come from? Have you ever thought up a thought that wasn't already there to begin with?

Probably going to be reading this book of his before the others. In the meantime (that word suddenly seems an ominous pun) his lectures are well worth a listen.