← Previous: Chapter 7: Energy: An Abstract · Series hub · Next: Chapter 9: The Concept of God → You can plant the tree. You cannot make it grow. Most of the misery I have seen, my own included, comes from mixing up those two. In brief: In this chapter I take on one of the oldest questions about our lives: whether we choose anything at all, or only feel as though we do. I answer it the way I finally answered it for myself, with a tree that you can plant but cannot order to gro