While the author's previous book on the matter, "Exploring the
Illusion of Free Will, Second Edition, " is a popular work, this
brief discourse is decidedly and robustly academic. It will
regrettably prove inaccessible to many physical and social science
professors who are, as evident by the profusion of elementally
flawed free will defenses published by major peer-reviewed
journals, far more adept at learning, communicating and applying
concepts and principles than at understanding their fundamental
nature. The book focuses exclusively on the physical refutation of
the free will construct, concurrently addressing claims that
because we are human, our choices are somehow exempt from physical
law. It also delves deeply into quantum mechanical principles and
phenomena relevant to the free will question, siding with Einstein,
Bohm, Hawking, Krauss and others regarding the causal nature of
both the macro and quantum world. The refutations presented
hopefully describe the physical evidence against free will with
sufficient strength and clarity to win over more hitherto agnostic
minds than have earlier attempts by other authors. The book's
original contributions to the literature on human agency are that
it presents an a priori argument for the causality that refutes
free will, and that it not only challenges recent published
warnings of dangerous repercussions from abandoning belief in free
will, it presents a convincing argument for humanity evolving
beyond a notion of free choice that seems the catalyst for more
harm than good. The author presents evidence associating the
psychological defense mechanism known as "denial" with free will
belief, and proposes that a belief in human autonomy's correlate of
fundamental moral responsibility amplifies the widespread denial of
the existence and anthropogenic origin of a climate change crisis
that, unless successfully mitigated, many prominent scientists fear
poses a serious threat to the civilization we know. The hard
physical evidence prohibiting free will, and the arguments
suggesting a serious downside to maintaining the belief, will
hopefully inspire a long-overdue exploration of the implications of
acknowledging that we live in a world in which we, as humans, have
fundamentally no control. Such an investigation is clearly akin to
our formulating a categorically new, and distinctly evolved,
understanding of who we are, and of what our essential collective
experience is, as a human species.
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