Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don’t

by DIG THE HEAVY | January 2, 2007 at 04:56 pm

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DENNIS OVERBYE

NY
Times

Tuesday, January 2, 2007 - I was a free man until they brought the dessert menu around. There
was one of those molten chocolate cakes, and I was suddenly being dragged
into a vortex, swirling helplessly toward caloric doom, sucked toward
the edge of a black (chocolate) hole. Visions of my father’s heart
attack danced before my glazed eyes. My wife, Nancy, had a resigned
look on her face.

As a result, physicists, neuroscientists and computer scientists have joined the heirs of Plato and Aristotle in arguing about what free will is, whether we have it, and if not, why we ever thought we did in the first place.