Against Nature – Mother Nature herself is no help in resolving the question of free will vs determinism. I suspect though that as the sun has no say in its travels through the universe, that we, subject to the same law of physics, have no choice in our lives. Free will would thus be an illusion, or rather a delusion. An ideology that some have been fated to believe in and others to not. What can one do? I think live our lives the best we can, whether free will exists or not. Of course we may have no choice in the matter. Now the topic turns to my life. A recent conversation I had with my sister turned to the topic of depression. I asked her what she thought was the cause of our family’s seeming prevalence of depression, did she think it was from nurture or nature? And the wit of my sister responded with ‘Both’  – Zachary