atoms, with their
probabilistic paths are the only substance that exists fundamentally in us and if they are probalistic human behaviour is fully
determined, with freedom being our capacity to know that we are determined
: ″the infant
believes that it is by free will that it seeks the breast; the angry boy
believes that by free will he wishes vengeance; the timid man thinks it is with
free will he seeks flight; the drunkard believes that by a free command of his
mind he speaks the things which when sober he wishes he had left unsaid. … All
believe that they speak by a free command of the mind, whilst, in truth, they have
no power to restrain the impulse which they have to speak
See Spinoza
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