I’m not gonna pretend I understand the underlying math. But from what I’ve read, it’s less about proving hard determinism and more about mapping how chaos scales. It’s fascinating when you line it up with Daniel Wegner’s work on the illusion of conscious will. We like to feel like the CEO of our own heads, but maybe we’re just the press secretary, spinning a story after the fact.

This hits harder now that I’m a parent. I’m trying to figure out how to raise my kid with a spiritual backbone without handing them a rigid dogma they’ll eventually resent. If their “free will” is partly just quantum fingerprints unfolding through their developing nervous system, then my job isn’t to control the outcome. It’s to tend the environment. You don’t tell a seed how to grow; you just make sure it gets light and water.

Tarot has always spoken to me in this register. The Wheel of Fortune doesn’t promise mastery. It shows cyclical momentum, hidden forces turning the gears while we stand on the spokes. When I pull it for clients, I always tell them it’s about surrendering the illusion of total control and trusting the process. Maybe free will isn’t a steering wheel. Maybe it’s just the mind’s way of making sense of the static so we can actually live with ourselves.

I’m curious if anyone else has been tracking this Kadir Has research. Does it feel like liberation to you, or does it just make you feel more like a passenger in your own skull? I’d