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Scientist concludes: "We don't have free will" (www.latimes.com)
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[–] 601error@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

In my opinion, we either have free will, or we have something else that is effectively indistinguishable from free will. The whole debate is a waste of time, and a person should act as if they had free will regardless of the answer.