Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Joyce Carol Oates

 Hazards of time travel

Page 141
Free will is a delusion, for most of us. It's a pleasant delusion, like the anticipation of Heaven which, though it never arrives, it's comforting to contemplate. More realistically, free will is like suggesting to a paraplegic
That he has the choice of getting up and running in an olympic competition.

This is a quote from one of her characters, a behavioral list. And it reminds me, a Scott Adams. Who is always telling us things we can do, but saying we don't have any choice in the things that we do.




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