Being an existentialist, i.e. a firm believer in free will, this article just made my skin cold. I think I'm kinda lucky that I'm kinda sleepy tonight so I don't grasp the full horror of this article, but here's a highlight on David Wong's article from Cracked.Com (Yes, it's from Cracked--SHIT) about how scary Heisenberg's discoveries are.
Now, I'm going to follow the same disclaimer he did.
TURN BACK NOW IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ IT.
If you do want to read it, just press Ctrl + A as to highlight the text.
Enjoy. Err. Or not. REALLY NOT.
Heisenberg let out a long laugh. "Fool! When you were a babe at your mother's crotch, you had a brain built on the genes handed down by your parents! And they got theirs from their parents, all the way back to the first life formed by an accidental cell mutation! And everything you've seen or heard in your life since was fired into your brain as electrical nerve impulses from your eyes and ears. We can measure those impulses! They are physical things! And each of those impulses, what you called 'sights' and 'sounds' threw certain chemical switches in your brain, all of which can also be observed and measured! And those switches, as they turn as predictably as gears in a clock, are what we call 'thoughts' and 'emotions!' And what you know as your 'self' is just the accumulation of chemical changes made to a genetic blueprint! We could change it in a lab! We could make you fall in love! We could make your soul from scratch! EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER HEARD ABOUT FREE WILL VERSUS FATE CAN NOW BE MEASURED IN A LABORATORY! THE DEBATE IS OVER!"
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