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Satirical Article Jokes That Jimmy John's Customers Disprove Free Will

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5h ago· 2 min readen

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A satirical article from The Onion-style publication claims researchers at the University of Illinois have "proven" free will doesn't exist because people repeatedly eat at Jimmy John's, a chain sandwich restaurant. The "study" argues that no person with functioning taste buds would voluntarily choose to eat there, suggesting human behavior must be driven by forces beyond conscious control.

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Our exhaustive survey of over 12,000 regular Jimmy John's customers revealed patterns of behavior utterly inconsistent with the idea of human autonomy

no person with functioning taste buds would continually subject themselv

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CHAMPAIGN, IL—Shedding new light on the concept of voluntary behavior, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign contend in a study published this week that the existence of free will can be disproven by the fact that people repeatedly ea

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