Determined?: Responding to O’Connor and Shapiro

Are you freely choosing to read this? Or did something else cause you to do this very thing at this very moment, whether you liked it or not? Most people would say yes to the first part of this question, thinking that this is self-evident. After all, you could stop reading this if you wanted to. But what if, foundationally, this world is made up of nothing more than colliding particles? What if that sense of choice you have is nothing but a (very convincing) illusion? What does that mean for our lives? What does that mean for you reading this at this very moment? Join Andy, Steve, and Wes as they discuss the everyday consequences of a world made up of mere particles.

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