I was certainly motivated to click on this article, as I do on most essays in the philosophy section of medium, discussing free will versus determinism.

Both are wrong.

We are mobile creatures with a sequential process of perception, in order to navigate, then evolved a narrative based culture, as a consequence of telling stories to one another, so we think of time as the point of the present, moving past to future. On which we naturally reflect and project.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform and drive it, aka, causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

The premise of determinism is that as cause yields effect, the entire course of events is determined by initial conditions.

Yet the physical reality is that there is only this state of presence and it is within this state that the process of causation, the calculation of input yielding output, occurs. And it has to occur, in order to be determined! Potential, actual, residual.

As for free will, if our will was free of cause, it would be equally free of effect and the premise of will is to affect. We are a small part of nature's process of selection.

I realize it is somewhat futile to raise this point, as most people seem swept along by cultural inertia, but occasionally a few perk up and see the logic.