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Time, Identity & Free Will

Do We Want To Be Free?

Siobhan Lyons discovers that free will doesn’t come for free.

In the BBC America series Killing Eve, Russian assassin Villanelle breaks out of jail with another inmate. Upon exiting the escape vehicle, the inmate appears anxious, and asks: “What should I do?” Villanelle replies: “I don’t know. Run. You’re free.” But the inmate simply replies: “I don’t want to be free.

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