Blink

What we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act- and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment- are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.


We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explinations for things we don't really have an explination for.