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Scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will (phys.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I think we do. I just think that the part of our mind that we identify with, the part that makes monkey chatter in your head and stitches everything together into a narrative you can understand, that part of your mind isn't the part that makes decisions. It rationalizes decisions and tells itself that it made them, but it doesn't have free will. But there is another part that does.