Free Will: A Mistaken Belief in Uncaused Effects

Human beings are not a special exception, we belong to this world of cause and effect as much as anything else.

That every effect has a cause is the foundation of everything we know. Very few people believe in the spontaneous appearance of things or in random changes of state. This would be a bizarre world if such things happened. But it would seem that these considerations do not weigh heavily on those who believe that human beings exist outside the causal matri…