Falling Into Place

Falling Into Place

Essays

Agency (Part 3 of 8)

Determinism’s Dead End

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Glenn DeVore
May 30, 2025
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Friedrich Nietzsche in Basel, Switzerland, c. 1875

In part 2 of this essay, we looked at determinism as one of the most enduring, and increasingly persuasive, arguments against the existence of free will. The idea, as Sapolsky and others have laid it out, is relatively simple: every thought, feeling, decision, or impulse arises within the causal order of…

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