Are you a passive cue ball, your path determined by whatever bumps you? Or are you freely and independently choosing your own path? We’ve debated this determinism vs. free will question for millennia ...

Modern physics has turned the old clockwork picture of the universe into something far stranger, filled with quantum probabilities, emergent patterns and deep puzzles about what counts as a “cause.” ...

For time immemorial, philosophers have debated the extent to which we have free will. The coronavirus pandemic makes such a debate timely because something so important is happening to us that is out ...