Fate vs Free will- Blog Post #3

A paper from 20 years ago stated that free will does not exist. Your thoughts do nothing to produce an action. This paper (written by Dan Wegner and Thalia Wheatley) stated that we have no choice on what we do. This is the case in Never let me go. The main characters have no choice in what happened. Their life is planned for them. Choice is simply an illusion and I, to an extent agree. 

Another study, (documented here https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/what-neuroscience-says-about-free-will/ ) came to the same conclusions. We don’t choose what we do. There is no free will in majority of our actions.  Within the novel, the same concept appears, on a greater scale. The main characters “donate their organs” however they have no choice which tends to reflect on our day to day life.

There is a concept where you can feel a phantom touch on your arm before someone actually touches you. The idea behind this is reality is behind time. This is an interesting idea which I personally believe. The idea has the same effect as fate vs free will. Technically there is no free will if everything has already happened in the “past”. This principal of a delay in reality explains that actions are already predetermined and we fool ourselves by think we chose them. Everything, both in Never let me go, and reality is an action of fate, and none of our thoughts can change this.   

-GP (sorry Mrs. Draper, your articles were not working for me, so I picked another one)