The world is deterministic and there is free will. These folks are emphatic that the world is made of stuff like atoms, and life, in the elegant words of psychologist Roy Baumeister (currently at the University of Queensland in Australia), “is based on the immutability and relentlessness of the laws of nature.”[5] No magic or fairy dust involved, no substance dualism, the view where brain and mind are separate entities.[*] Instead, this deterministic world is viewed as compatible with free will. This is roughly 90 percent of
