Free will and personal responsibility are unscientific myths. Biological research continues to overturn conventional ideas about free will. Human behavior is controlled by biological and environmental influences. A person’s actions are determined by their brain, which is itself determined by genetic and environmental influences. Every action is caused by a prior action going back to the beginning of the universe. Chemicals, cells, particles, and additional factors control human behavior.
These posts discuss the illusions of free will and personal responsibility:
2. Incognito by David Eagleman
3. Liberated by Giving Up Free Will
4. Wall Street and the End of Free Will
5. Pretending to Have Free Will
8. Exploring the Illusion of Free Will
9. The Best Argument Against Free Will
10. The Myth of Personal Responsibility
11. The Illusion of Conscious Will
12. The Astonishing Hypothesis
14. Humans Are Animals But Can Be So Much More
15. Everything in Life is Luck
