FREE WILL EXPLAINED asks us to ponder the questions: “do we have free will?” And, “if we don’t, why do we feel as if we do?” In a universe governed by impersonal laws of cause and effect, are you responsible for your actions?
Former Christian minister Dan Barker (God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction) unveils a novel solution to the question that has baffled scientists and philosophers for millennia.
He outlines the concept of what he calls “harmonic free will,” a two-dimensional perspective that pivots the paradox on its axis to show that there is no single answer—both sides are right. Free will is a useful illusion: not a scientific, but a social truth.