What is Hard Determinism? (Does Free Will Exist?)?

Hard Determinism is the idea that everything happens because of what came before, there’s no free will, just a long chain of causes and effects.

Imagine you're playing with building blocks. Every time you pick up a block, it's because you saw it fall down before, or someone told you to move it. You don’t really choose, the block had to be moved because of what happened earlier. That’s like hard determinism, everything happens because of causes we can't see, just like how blocks fall and stack up.

Think of your brain as a train that's already on the tracks. You're not choosing where it goes, you're just going along with wherever the track leads. The train didn’t get to choose its path; it was set by the people who built the tracks long before you even got on.

So when you pick your favorite toy, or decide what to eat for breakfast, it’s not really a choice, it's just another part of that long chain of causes and effects. You're just following the track, like the train.