To Be, or Not to Be

By Masha Gessen

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One of the best works in the library, "To Be, or Not to Be" was featured in the May 2020 newsletter and is highly recommended for all.

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someone is a sequence of choices, and the question is: Will my next choice be conscious, and will my ability to make it be unfettered?

Published in 2018 in The New York Review of Books.

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    title={{T}o {B}e, or {N}ot to {B}e},
    author={Masha Gessen},
    year=2018,
    month=feb,
    journal={The New York Review of Books},
    keywords={gender, thought, karma, free-will, authoritarianism, totalitarianism},
    ranking={rank5},
    url={https://web.archive.org/web/20200509082500/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/02/08/to-be-or-not-to-be/}
}