One of the most common objections I hear to my position on free will is that it’s intellectually dishonest. I’m told that it’s hypocrisy to believe that we are ultimately not free while behaving sometimes as if we are. This is not true. Or at least if it is, we’re all hypocrites. We are humans living in the flesh, and as such we have all manner of constraints on our experiences and our interpretations thereof. We experience color as an emotional, vivid dimension to reality. When we smell certain things we’re teleported to another time and place. And during the heights of romantic or sexual bliss it’s as if we exist in another plane. A plane of fantasy and perfection and joy. But as modern primates, with access to the tools of analysis and technology, we can see that these sensations are in fact chemical in nature. Even more disturbing is the fact that they can be reproduced as such. Isolate the chemicals of romantic bliss, pump them through a brain, and that brain will feel those feelings. It’s chemicals. It’s physics. It’s truth.