Free Will is Real. Stop Pretending It’s an Illusion

When I stumbled across Sam Harris’ book “Free Will” 2 years ago at a local bookstore, I was excited to read it. The cover, featuring the titular letters suspended from marionette strings, looked elegant and provocative. At the time, I was a run-of-the-mill educated devotee of the physical sciences. The idea that free will was an illusion had always been intuitive to me. How could I freely do anything…