Dennett speaks for a number of neuroscientists when he says, “a brain was always going to do what it was caused to do by current, local, mechanical circumstances.”13 Your consciousness, your sense of yourself, is “like a benign ‘user-illusion.’”14 Anything resembling free will is unlikely or, at best, minimal and problematic.1

Dennett speaks for a number of neuroscientists when he says, “a brain was always going to do what it was caused to do by current, local, mechanical circumstances.”13 Your consciousness, your sense of yourself, is “like a benign ‘user-illusion.’”14 Anything resembling free will is unlikely or, at best, minimal and problematic.1