Determinism In Nagel's Free Will

If you could have, then why didn’t you?
Free Will is the tittle for chapter 6 in the book. It starts off by giving us a brief example of a very common situation people go through everyday in perhaps more than once a day. Food choice, would you pick the healthiest desert for you, or the appealing chocolate cake? If you picked the cake knowing that it wasn’t good for you, yet you still had the option to pick something else, then why didn’t you? Nagel discusses different explanations of why humans do this. One of the reasons could be determinism, which is defined as “the idea of circumstances that exist before we act, determine our actions and make them inevitable” What are different forms a determinism, are humans the only ones that possess this attribute? …show more content…
Reason being, it’s because they tent to blame their food choices for the way their body looks. If this would to be true, and you have the choice to eat better food everyday, then why don’t you? I believe it depends on the person; some have very strong wills with a mindset of doing better for them. Others don’t, so they regret all the time their previous choices thinking that they might have had a better choice but they didn’t pick it. You have the free will to pick or do whatever you like. I believe our human brain plays this little game in our heads where we think there are no rapid consequences so we can stop them before they happen. We do what we do hoping that there will be no bad consequences, even thought it might be proven already that there will be. Is the way our brain works, we go for what gives us more pleasure at the moment, it’s a temptation you have to fight, some people win, others