The Laws of the Universe Rule Out Freedom of the Will

If you think that the laws of the universe necessarily rule out freedom, then you cannot be moved by arguments of this sort. You are trapped, so to speak, by a prison you have built for your own mind. Your argument is vacuous. It says little more than that which is logically impossible is logically impossible. But let's talk about how it is people make decisions. Let us turn to that, and turn to what it is about people that is special. Inanimate objects obey deterministic physical laws - rocks erode away, trees decompose into carbon dioxide,. water, methand emmonia. complex animals are not reflecting at all in any way analogous to what people do on