The scientific approach seeks the immediate cause of an event, what led to what. Scientists think of it as determinism, the idea that everything that happens has a cause or determinism that could be observed or measured. This vision is an assumption, not an established fact, but the success of scientific research attests to its value. Does it apply to human behavior? After all, we are part of the physical world and our brains are made of chemicals. According to determinist assumptions, everything we do has causes. This view seems to conflict with the impression we all have that "I" am the one who makes decisions about my actions, such as what to eat or what to buy; I'm in doubt until the last second. The decision could have gone one way or the other, I was not controlled by anything and no one could have predicted what I would do. The belief that behaviors are caused by a person's independent decision is known as free will. Some biologists say that free will is just an illusion, like Cashmore. What you call conscious intention is more predictable than the cause of your behavior. By the time you have the conscious experience of deciding to move your hand or feet, the behavior is already starting to occur. Other biologists and philosophers respond that you make decisions, in the sense that something inside you initiates the action. Even though your brain is made of chemicals, no one can predict your decisions by putting all the atoms in your brain together. The system as a whole has emergent properties that depend on the sum of all its components. However, the “you” who makes your decisions is itself the product of a legacy and events in your life that demonstrate that you did not create yourself. In a sense yes, you have a will, an ability...... middle of paper ......n personal advantage, a higher percentage of those who read the determinism essay cheated because they felt less the sense of personal responsibility. For free will to be true, you would have to choose what to think before thinking about it, which is beyond the capacity of the human brain, which proves that our free will is just an illusion. Even if we accept Cashmore's argument that free will is an illusion derived from consciousness and that consciousness has the evolutionary advantage of conferring the illusion of responsibility, we are still far from understanding the concept with consciousness and free will. What type of brain activity is associated with consciousness? Why does conscious experience exist? Research studies cannot prove this to be wrong, but the research findings certainly limit the philosophical answers we can seriously consider.