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Originally Posted by Raven
If one can discern a certain amount of variables, than one is able to affect those variables. If one can affect those variables, than one is able to generate a separate option. If one can generate a separate option, than one has created a choice. Thus the existance of this choice actually contradicts determinism.
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I hate to seem like I'm sitting on the fence here but I believe that we have only "limited will". The amount of variables are infinite and, subsequently, unconscionable. That is to say, you make THINK that you taken all options into account but the fact that you've been not only socially conditioned but conditioned by nature itself (i.e. five senses whose brain's very thinking process lay victim to a "matrix of thought" which is based only in the space-time continuum). Long story short is that you may FEEL like you have free will but that is due to the lack of a broader vision that is beyond our capability. This narrow field of sentience is good enough for most of us, though.