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Is there free will?
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If the universe can be expressed as numbers plugged into an equation, doesn't that alone answer the question of free will?
What if the equation is a wave function? And the free will is collapsed quantum state?
When a quantum event collapses in the brain, the result is unpredictable yet this randomness is still not something you control. True free will would require a selection process that is neither purely random nor strictly deterministic, but genuinely willed. Randomness just introduces chaos; it doesn’t produce the sense of "I chose this".