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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
I think there is no such thing as free will, CMV.

I believe that there are two kinds of decisions that people can make: ones where all of the factors leading up to that choice (genetics, one's history, etc.) determine the outcome of the choice and ones where the decision is made randomly (which would also imply the person did not truly choose out of free will). 

I know you can argue that Person A will make a different choice than Person B when presented with the same circumstances. However, I feel that if ALL of the circumstances are truly identical, then Person A is exactly Person B in every possible way, so the decision outcome must be the same. What I mean to say is that people are determined by their genes, past, etc. and that is what governs how we make decisions, not free will. CMV.
gpt
I think it's semantics, really.

Like a pseudo-random number generated by a computer, if you have all the data of how it makes its random numbers, it's pretty easy to see the numbers aren't random at all and you can pretty easily get the next random numbers that'll come out. However to someone on the other end (who doesn't have any information about where the numbers are coming from) it's basically impossible to tell, and thus it's random. 

You can argue that yes, at the very top level of everything there's probably no free will, but as the ability to get all the data to make such a prediction is and will forever be impossible, it's no different than sitting on the random side of the random number generator. Thus, for all intents and purposes, we have free will.