The logical consequences of the new viewpoint necessitated a reinterpretation of the higher-order human experiences that we call "freedom" and "will." Meyer echoed Planck in positing that "freedom of action in the animal world signifies the same that is meant by accidents in the world of physics." Such accidents are simply phenomena for which there are insufficient information and understanding. And so it goes with freedom. The liberal idea of freedom persists in an inverse relationship to the growth of scientific knowledge, especially in the field of psychological science. Knowledge and freedom are necessarily adversaries. As Meyer wrote, "The Other-One's conduct is free, uncaused, only in the same sense in which the issue of a disease, the outcome of a war, the weather, the crops are free and uncaused; that is, in the sense of general human ignorance of the particular causes of the particular outcome."

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 1152