Wet Soap

An eager Positivist once informed me with great certainty that neurologists agree that we have no free will, that everything is just a chemical reaction. Fine, but in that case what we take to be free will is an entirely ordinary chemical reaction like everything else in the multiverse and as such to the extent that we have something that seems like free will it is sensible to believe that it is perfectly sensible to say that every ordinary chemical reaction indeed the entire universe could have something that could seem like free will. In an instant this atheist proved the likelyhood of God. This story tells us less about wether there is or isnt a god or wether the multiverse is concious, it merely tells us the absurdity of trying to acheive logical certainty. For logic is like a bar of wet soap. The harder one tries to grab it the more it slips through our fingers.