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Free will

Is There Free Will?

A lot of what drives us is dictated by external forces. But you can't know that everything is determined by fate. Whenever a person first "realizes" everything is determined they get depressed. The way they get out of this depression is believing there really is some spark of free will. That seems to show that the spark of free will is there. That spark will motivate us to change things for the better.

We are just a mass of energy bound up into complex systems. If there is free will it would be based on a property of this energy. What scientists see way down at the quantum level is what they call the quantum effect. This effect is a sort of randomness or non-deterministic causality. If we can direct this effect somehow that would give us the ability for free will.
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