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Book SynopsisThe Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller
''A truly fascinating - if unnerving - read''
The Telegraph
''We can all benefit from Critchlow''s book''
New Scientist
''Acute, mind-opening, highly accessible - this book doesn''t just explain how our lives might pan out, it helps us live better''
Bettany Hughes
''A humane and highly readable account of the neuroscience that underpins our ideas of free will and fate''
Professor David Runciman
So many of us believe that we are free to shape our own destiny. But what if free will doesn''t exist? What if our lives are largely predetermined, hardwired in our brains - and our choices over what we eat, who we fall in love with, even what we believe are not real choices at all?
Neuroscience is challenging everything we think we know about ourselves, revealing how we make decisions and form our own reality, unaware of the role of our unc
Trade Review
'It's been the question that has inspired, stultified and petrified humanity across the millennia. What is our fate? From the goddess Nemesis to the theory of free will we've struggled. Until now. Acute, mind-opening, highly accessible - this book doesn't just explain how our lives might pan out, it helps us live better.' -- Bettany Hughes
'A humane and highly readable account of the neuroscience that underpins our ideas of free will and fate' -- Professor David Runciman
'A truly fascinating - if unnerving - read' * The Telegraph *
