Illusions

From an article in the NYT (reg. required) on how science doesn’t necessarily provide the answers we want:

I’d like to believe that like Galileo, I would have the courage to see the world clearly, in all its cruelty and beauty, “without hope or fear,” as the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis put it. Take free will. Everything I know about physics and neuroscience tells me it’s a myth. But I need that illusion to get out of bed in the morning.

No you don’t. You’d get out of bed anyway. Your body takes care of that when it’s good and ready, and then you kid yourself that you decided to get out of bed. It’s just an illusion that you need that illusion…