[ WP ] It 's discovered that only 10 % of the population have free will , everyone else in the world only follows very specific programming .

The question has always been with us: [ why do people do the things we do? ] ( http: //plato.stanford.edu/entries/ancient-soul/ ) The [ 19th century saw the mass adoption of scientific method ] ( https: //explorable.com/history-of-the-philosophy-of-science ), and [ Darwin's famous break away from the blanket explanation ] ( http: //www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/ ) then common in the West, of' [ God made it happen'. ] ( http: //iblp.org/questions/why-does-god-let-bad-things-happen ) [ Wilhelm Wundt ] ( http: //www.simplypsychology.org/wundt.html ), [ Sigmund Freud ] ( http: //psychology.about.com/od/sigmundfreud/p/sigmund_freud.htm ), [ Ivan Pavlov ] ( http: //muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/pavlov.htm ), [ Burrhus Skinner ] ( http: //www.simplypsychology.org/operant-conditioning.html ) and many others added pieces to the puzzle and with the event of [ real-time brain imaging ] ( http: //www.psych.nyu.edu/pylkkanen/Neural_Bases/07_slides/05_Methods.pdf ), we found that we could add more and more pieces to the puzzle. 
 
 We found, more and more, that people have [ basic programming ] ( http: //listverse.com/2013/02/03/10-psychology-tricks-you-can-use-to-influence-people/ ) and do n't go against it. We found, shockingly, that people [ act on decisions before they've consciously made any decision at all. ] ( http: //exploringthemind.com/the-mind/brain-scans-can-reveal-your-decisions-7-seconds-before-you-decide ) We found that for the vast majority, the actual decision-making process is completely deterministic. We learned, over the centuries, to program people more and more specifically and reliably. 
 
 Once it was proven that advertising companies could very literally make you buy their products, advertising ended up being constrained, largely by those you would think would benefit. [ Product buying got too swingy, ] ( http: //www.twincities.com/ci_23984564/real-world-economics-why-big-swings-occur-oil ) and people, predictably, preferred the smaller losses and gains that gave [ the illusion of choice ] ( http: //www.alternet.org/food/how-big-food-creates-illusion-choice-supermarket ) and made it less of [ a gamble to start a company at all. ] ( http: //isbdc.org/starting-a-business-in-a-saturated-market-how-to-stand-out/ ) 
 
 Governments, too, could [ program their population ] ( http: //usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2010-01-22-psychology-political-propoganda_N.htm ), and of course [ they did, ] ( http: //weburbanist.com/2009/06/09/pretty-persuasion-pumped-up-propaganda-of-the-past/ ) but in the end there were [ agreements from everyone ] ( http: //web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/ORGANIZATION/BODEXT/0,,contentMDK:50004943~menuPK:64020045~pagePK:64020054~piPK:64020408~theSitePK:278036,00.html ) to scale back, because when everyone was doing it, nobody benefited. In the end, [ wars did n't involve actual human beings at all ] ( http: //www.vox.com/2014/5/16/5723366/UN-debate-killer-robots-autonomous ) and for most of us, war is only noticeable because of [ price changes ] ( http: //www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0411/4-commodities-affected-by-world-conflicts.aspx ) and notices in the news. There are always those poor unfortunates who have to be evacuated, usually by their own government, but even that is becoming more rare as resettlement follows more and more accurate models. 
 
 It could be shown, conclusively, how [ circumstances had led to a crime ] ( http: //www.bfcsa.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/196427/Criminal_Behaviour_-_Free_Will_v._Determinism.pdf ), and eventually, with predictable foot-dragging, people began to [ set things up so those circumstances rarely happened ] ( https: //www.unodc.org/unodc/en/justice-and-prison-reform/CrimePrevention.html? ref=menuside ). 
 
 And yet. At the point where 90 % of people are completely predictable, there was still that 10 % of people who acted completely irrationally, whose decisions could n't be predicted and who generally fouled everything up for the rest of humanity. Iconoclasts, [ sociopaths ] ( http: //dondwest.hubpages.com/hub/Sociopathic-Behavior-Dealing-With-Sociopaths ) and deadbeats who would not, could not get with the programme. Scientists are still working on trying to [ fix the problem ] ( http: //www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/22/1135188/-Sociopaths-and-Morality ), but until then life will continue to be unpredictable as long as these renegades are allowed to take part in political life. 
 
 This opens up one of the newest big questions for politics: should those with free will be [ banned from politics ] ( https: //www.facebook.com/pages/Ban-Anarchism-Make-it-Illegal/149463388431386 ) altogether? Some people argue that it will make life more predictable and better for everyone, while others say that out-of-the-box thinking might allow for [ novel solutions ] ( http: //www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-18663969 ) to societal problems that the rest of us ca n't come up with due to our deterministic programming. 
 
 Of course, in theory this question has already been decided, but even deterministic humans live in a [ chaotic universe, ] ( https: //explorable.com/history-of-the-philosophy-of-science ) and so it remains to be seen how this argument will play out. Until then, feel free to enjoy life according to your programming, and for those of you deciding things for yourselves, try not to ruin things for the rest of us!
