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Originally Posted by Nocturne
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Sorry but this isn't true at all. Someone knowing the outcome of an event has zero impact on your free will ability to make that choice in the first place. It's no different then saying that having a gun to your head means you have no free will. Even with a gun at your head you still have a choice. The only reasonable argument that could be made against free will are babies since they essentially don't have the ability to exercise their free will and are entirely dependent upon the free will of other beings to care for them.
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Why goes on when you make a decision? Your brain chemistry, your upbringing, the state of your consciousness, all coalesce to produce an outcome. But all of those things are
determined by external influences. Brain chemistry, by genetics and environment. Your aggregate experiences shaped you to be a certain way. The state of your consciousness is the way it is because of
all the events that happened before and during your life, including the construction of your genetic code.
Again, you are choosing what to do, but you aren't choosing what to choose.
You don't have an ability to make a choice other than the one dictated by almost infinitely complex, linear interactions of causality stretching back to the beginning of time, or infinitely.