A Stanford neurobiologist has concluded humans lack free will, a thought that raises troubling possibilities for society. One solution: Believe we have free will, but know it isn't really free.
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If you’re anything like me, you’ve been checking the Twitter account of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health every afternoon since last year for the daily count of new COVID-19 cases, new deaths and hospitalizations, despairing over the slightest uptick in numbers and celebrating the declines. Lately, there has been hardly any despairing and plenty of hope. To say that we’ve come a long way doesn’t do justice to our collective achievement as Angelenos consider that precisely four months ago, on Jan. 8, the county reported 18,313 new daily cases, 318 deaths and more than 8,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients. This week, we had back-to-back days of zero new deaths.