Movies: Free will

Are we truly free? Are our desires truly our own or merely imposed products of the society we live in? The question this film is asking is this: are we slaves to the culture and society we were born in or is there a way to escape after all?...

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Tara, a spirited 22-year-old, defies her protective parents to embark on a solo trip to Switzerland, inspired by an old romance novel that comforted her after her grandmother's death....

In this fascinating journey, Melissa Hogenboom considers whether or not we are in charge of our own decisions; from neuroscience to physics to how our understanding of free will impacts on our morality and the choices we make....

No idea is more fundamental to who we are than the idea that we are free to choose what we do and who we will become. This idea is known as free will. But are we truly "free" from the forces around us? In what sense are we free? Is it even possible t...