No Free Will: Argued by Mr. Pereboom
If sourced settlement at the root of human behavior is true
Then how could we have done differently than we have done?
And if we felt in our gut an aversion, but our minds made strides
Around down the middle like the warrior-poet marching through hell—
Who by what could judge the way as deserving of blame?
The way was none other than what nature demanded, viz.,
Initial conditions and boundary conditions and all the stuff inside
Satisfying the need of the calculation of physics in principle if not solved.
Moral responsibility judged by free will resists if the will is set by nature.
It seems we control our own lives—to choose beyond what nature demands.
It seems that the sun and the moon swirl about our humble, little selves,
And it seems that the fish need no air to live. Thus,
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