About "free will"
This caption already is a contradiction, because as far as we can gather, a 'free will' does not exist. A lot of people believe in it vehemently.
The law of cause and effect would not extend to the domain of motives. Free will as some sort of miracle. Life is a miracle, but still...
Less unbelievable but more surprising because we are used to be under the illusion of free will: everything happens withous us having a real grip on things. Despite all our cultural qualities we live instinctively. Afterwards we always we deceive ourselves with reasons for which we did this or that, supposedly of one's own free will.
One of the questions that preoccupy me: how is it possible that the whole judiciary system of the civilized world is based on the belief in free will? Are we so stupid, all of us together? A horrifying possibility: we want to spare perpetrators because we (as Isaac Bashevis Singer said) are descendants of the killers.
However, artists and writers need (the illusion of) free will like a hole in the head. They can only produce their work by their instinct. That's why the processes of composing, writing, painting and sculpting seem to work automatically.
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