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Posted by A.E. on October 07, 2002 at 11:49:47:

There is no freedom of will or separate soul.

In human freedom in the philosophical sense I am definitely a disbeliever. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. [The World as I See It]

But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined as the past. There
is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. [The World As I See It]

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seems to me to be empty and devoid of meaning. [Letter of 5 February 1921]

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