Narrative, context and how to think about free will
In 2017 two excellent books — Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari, and Behave, by Robert Sapolsky — convinced me that free will is a myth.
Let’s suppose Harari, Sapolsky and all the other free-will deniers are right, and that every human behavior is dictated by a complex array of scientific and environmental variables (e.g. genes, neurobiology, geography, peer pressure, how much sleep you had last night), some of which remain obscure, abstract and possibly incomprehensible.
