"If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal path round the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel
thoroughly convinced that it would travel its path on its own, in accordance with a resolution taken once and for all.
So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about
this illusion of his that he was acting according to his own free will.
This is my belief, although I know well that it is not fully demonstrable. If one thinks out to the very last consequence
what one exactly knows and understands, there would hardly be any human being who could be impervious to this view,
provided his self-love did not rub up against it. Man defends himself from being regarded as an impotent object in the
course of the Universe. But should the lawfulness of happenings, such as unveils itself more and more clearly in inorganic
nature, cease to function in the activities in our brain?"
--- Albert Einstein