This book presents a series of interconnected arguments concerning the nonexistence of free will, souls, the God of the Bible, and the metaphysical significance of death. Beginning from the logical exhaustion of possible universe-types, we demonstrate that free will is incoherent under any conceivable cosmology. The mathematical structure of quantum mechanics—our most fundamental physical theory—is examined in detail, with full axiomatic treatment, to show that the universe combines deterministic evolution with probabilistic measurement outcomes in a way that excludes free will at both levels.
From this foundation, we derive consequences for personal identity, drawing extensively on Buddhist analyses of the conventional nature of selfhood, particularly the celebrated chariot analogy from the Milinda Pañha. We examine the implications for theology, demonstrating that the God of the Bible becomes irrelevant to creatures without free will, and that doctrines of afterlife and reincarnation collapse without souls to survive or transmigrate. The analysis concludes with a consideration of death as complete annihilation and an evolutionary account of our irrational fear thereof.
The arguments form an interlocking system: no free will entails no souls; no souls entails no subjects for divine judgment, no transmigrating entities for reincarnation, and no persisting selves to die. What remains is the flux—the endless rearrangement of matter and energy, of which we are temporary configurations, here for a moment and then dissolved back into the whole from which we never truly separated.