Determined

How do we live without free will?The existence of free will - our ability to choose between one course of action and another, to determine our own destiny - is a foundation stone of western society, dictating our notions of fairness and justice, punishment and reward, our very identity as individuals and humans. But as world-renowned scientist Robert Sapolsky shows, there is not a shred of evidence to suggest that free will exists, even while everything in our biology leads us to believe that it does. Gathering together all of the scientific evidence available, Sapolsky first demonstrates conclusively that free will is a fabrication rather than a reality and then goes on to examine how it is that we live successfully and justly in its absence and asking what would happen if we were all to accept, once and for all, that everything we do has already been determined?A book of monumental scope and importance, Determined brings us face to face with a truth that is at once profoundly disturbing and liberating, with radical implications for every aspect of our lives.