Myopia makes us want our team’s players in Gareth Southgate’s XI but at least he has picked from far and wide
There was a fascinating long read in the Guardian a month ago entitled “The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?” in which Oliver Burkeman explored the age-old question about whether any of us have any control over anything we do. We are encouraged to consider a fruit bowl containing an apple and a banana. You feel hungry, you choose the banana. You could have chosen the apple. But you didn’t. Now you are eating a banana. Free will. A decision made. By you and you alone. You have successfully consumed one banana.
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