The journey of chance begins at conception. Its central character? The zygote—a single cell that from the very start protests, divides, and grows, until it becomes a large male foetus grappling with the anxiety of existence. As days go by, it gradually realizes that it is powerless to change the course of its life.
From within the womb, it is shocked by the reality it perceives — a reality more clearly understood through dreams. It becomes painfully aware that it is entirely dependent on two forces: the genetic legacy it unknowingly carries, and the environment into which it is about to be born—both entirely beyond its knowledge or control. It has no choice. No say. No influence. Yet these two elements alone will define everything that follows. Its future is already ‘predetermined’, and the much-praised idea of ‘free will’ proves to be deeply conditioned—not free at all. As the weeks pass and birth draws near, it understands, like all humans eventually do… it all happened just by chance.
“Tassos Bitsakakis, in this book, gives literary voice to the neuroscientific view that we are the outcome of our genes and our environment. In the grand procession of genes and environment, there is no crack wide enough for free will to slip through.”
George Paxinos
Professor of Psychology and Medical Sciences
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