free to muck about all we want.” “That’s a good explanation.” “But it’s not true, and I’ll tell you why. Predetermination. If that explanation is true, it means that everything we do was set in stone hundreds of years before we were born. It means we’re not individuals, just robots running through pre-programmed responses, and I can’t accept that.” “But the whole reason we’re here is that we’ve proved that we’re algorithms in a computer program.” “That may be, but I’m an algorithm with free will! Any time someone claims I don’t have free will I shout shut up at the top of my lungs, because
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