No Such Thing As Free Will

​I don’t really believe in free will. At least not in the way we like to imagine it.
The idea that we consciously decide, independently and freely, feels increasingly fragile.

Neuroscience has shown that decisions often begin to take form before we are aware of them. Experiments suggest that neural activity precedes conscious intention: the body has already started moving before the mind claims authorship of this. What we experience as a choice may be closer to a narration than an origin.

​I find that idea highly fascinating.

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In my drawings, decisions feel deliberate. Marks appear as responses and choices. Reactions to what is already there. But occasionally the hand moves faster than thought and control arrives late, if at all. Movements are then shaped by habit, memory, rhythm or sometimes fatigue.

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If free will exists, it seems less like an act of command and more like a brief window of observation: noticing what has already happened and calling it “mine.”

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(digital drawings on iPad, 2025)

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