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[EliTRiGG3R]

This book had smashed my usual thinking process into electrons when I read it some time ago. Not all of us start out by accepting that there is no free will by it's classical definition. Even after loving physics, I never gave free will any serious thought as it was seemingly irrelevant and the result might have been too depressing to fathom. The unburdening of a massive weight off my shoulders and ethical consequences are the bases here. Essentially, thought process goes

nothingness>thoughts in mind>action

First arrow is a mixture of derministic factors like childhood, genome etc, and randomness, so, a mixture of a data crunching machine involving input and output and that machine playing dice once in a while

second arrow has impulse control too hamperable by things like brain anomalies like brain tumour and a fckton of things we don't know yet.

Free will doesn't get included in any of this in any shape or form.

Point of incarceration should be public safety/good only rather than any form of vindictive retaliation.

5/5 and a Short Listen.

Note : A lot of things mentioned here are the inferences I drew from the book and some free will lectures by Sam.