Sam Harris insists that free will is just an illusion, so this would be an excellent topic for Rick to ask about when he interviews Harris, no?
http://www.samharris.org/free-will http://www.samharris.org/free-will I even suspect that this irrelevance of true/false might be at play when discussing the free will issue, and have something to do with belief, and the conditioning that belief imposes on our perceptions. To someone who believes in predestination or even in determinism, their belief may impose upon them a subconscious inability to perceive the world any other way, and thus their actions *are* out of their control, if for no other reason than it never occurs to them to exert control.
