The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.
There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.
Imagination decides everything.
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.