I've been contemplating the notion of free will for a couple of years now, having read Sam Harris's book on the subject, and I've come to the conclusion that we have no free will at all. Not only do we have no free will, but everything that's happened in history could only have happened the way it did. Which means, if you follow the logic, that the future - the further future's past - can only happen the way it will, and must therefore be "written", as in preordained. There can be no other logical escape from this fact. That doesn't mean it's predicable, of course. It just means that everything, including these words and your thoughts, are inevitable. I've been explaining this reality to a number of people in recent months, many of whom simply don't get it. We have agency, after all, or so it seems. You, reader, can choose to stop reading, right? You can choose to re-read the last sentence, or come back to this tomorrow. But the point is