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What ever happened to Free Will?Thompson:We actually tried Free Will before. After taking you from hunting and gathering to the height of the Roman Empire we stepped back to see how you'd do on your own. You gave us the Dark Ages for five centuries... until finally we decided we should come back in. The Chairman thought maybe we just needed to do a better job of teaching you how to ride a bike before taking the training wheels off again. So we gave you the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution. For six hundred years we taught you to control your impulses with reason, then in 1910 we stepped back. Within fifty years, you'd brought us World War I, the Depression, Fascism, the Holocaust and capped it off by bringing the entire planet to the brink of destruction in the Cuban Missile Crisis. At that point a decision was taken to step back in again before you did something that even we couldn't fix. You don't have free will, David. You have the appearance of free will
What ever happened to Free Will?Thompson:We actually tried Free Will before. After taking you from hunting and gathering to the height of the Roman Empire we stepped back to see how you'd do on your own. You gave us the Dark Ages for five centuries... until finally we decided we should come back in. The Chairman thought maybe we just needed to do a better job of teaching you how to ride a bike before taking the training wheels off again. So we gave you the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution. For six hundred years we taught you to control your impulses with reason, then in 1910 we stepped back. Within fifty years, you'd brought us World War I, the Depression, Fascism, the Holocaust and capped it off by bringing the entire planet to the brink of destruction in the Cuban Missile Crisis. At that point a decision was taken to step back in again before you did something that even we couldn't fix. You don't have free will, David. You have the appearance of free will
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Whatever happened to free will
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We actually tried free will before
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After taking you from hunting and gathering
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to the height of the Roman Empire
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we stepped back to see how you would do on your own
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You gave us the Dark Ages for five centuries
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until finally we decided we should come back in
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The Chairman thought that maybe we just needed to do a better job
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with teaching you how to ride a bike
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before taking the training wheels off again
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So we gave you the Renaissance
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the Enlightenment scientific revolution
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For 600 years we taught you
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to control your impulses with reason
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Then in 1910 we stepped back again
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Within 50 years you had brought us World War I
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the Depression Fascism the Holocaust
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and capped it off by bringing the entire planet
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to the brink of destruction
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in the Cuban missile crisis
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At that point a decision was taken to step back in again
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before you did something that even we couldn't fix
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You don't have free will David
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You have the appearance of free will
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Movie Summary
The affair between a politician and a contemporary dancer is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.
Actors
David Norris
Thompson
