From Alexander Whiteside
As interesting as your latest specials on free will have been, it’s hard to shake off the feeling that the question itself is pretty irrelevant (17 May, p 33).
Either we have free will, in which case it’s business as usual, or we don’t. If we don’t, we must have a mere illusion of free will. But as we can’t break free from that (as we’d still be following the chain of events that goes back to the start of the universe), we might as well pretend we have free will anyway, as we’ll probably live happier, fuller lives, blissfully unaware that we don’t have control. Simple as that.
Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, UK
