# Lack of Freewill doesn't mean lack of choice

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lack-of-freewill-doesnt-mean-lack-of-choice/954128>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 10, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lack-of-freewill-doesnt-mean-lack-of-choice/954128 "2021-11-10T15:31:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 170

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lack-of-freewill-doesnt-mean-lack-of-choice/954128/170 "2021-12-29T22:04:11Z")

</div>

> [@Mijin](#):
>
> Do you agree that the brain is, of course, the proximate and necessary cause of my decisions?

I also have trouble saying yes to this. If we speak of a block-universe then in my opinion the relationship between cause and effect, and by extension the concept of choice or decision, is reduced to an illusion.

~Max

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lack-of-freewill-doesnt-mean-lack-of-choice/954128)._