Free Will

"How--how did I get here?"
"It would take another Earthling to explain it to you,
Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event
is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved
or avoided. I am a Tralfamdorian, seeing all time as you
might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all
time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or
explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and
you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."
"You sound to me as though you don't believe in free will," said Billy Pilgrim.
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"If I hadn't spent so much time studying Earthlings,"said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn't have any idea what was
meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets
in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will."

Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, page 82.