The first page or so brings out a strange little paradox for those who insist they have free will: Are you free to act against your own will?

Hence the "Oppression of the will". — Banno

You can oppress your own will. Like that of others.

And so that's the claim we evaluate: and any evidence for such interactions is conspicuously lacking. — Seppo

No evidence is contradicting it either. Who says a lightning striking a church is not caused by the gods?

We can see this phenomenon all around us. People who are able to think up schemes to recontruct reality into a shape far removed from the natural world are considered intelligent. The abstract thinking needed to give such an impoverished reality shape is reflected in the IQ. One could just as well state that the higher your IQ the lower your intelligent. Having 159 IQ, I must be very dumb indeed.