
Robert Sapolsky:What If Free Will Is Just a Story We Tell Ourselves?
Robert Sapolsky was 14 when he decided there was no such thing as free will. It was late at night, and the realization came all at once: no God, no cosmic plan, no hidden hand steering the world—just biology and chance. “It was this big, empty, indifferent universe,” he remembers. For most teenagers, that kind…