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human
CMV: There is No Free Will

With our ever advancing knowledge of neuroscience and the chemistry involved with it, I do not see any place for the idea that any animal, including humans, is truly capable of making choices. We are capable of recognizing choices, that is obvious, but I'm not convinced that the chemical pathways for neurons leaves any room for decisions to be made other than the ones that are made.There is no more room in the chemical pathways for us to "choose" to do anything any more than there is for bacteria or plants to do the same.

Chemistry behaves the way it does regardless of what we want it to do, and our decisions are made by chemical controlled signaling between cells. Is there any room for our nerves to come to any other result than the one they do given that chemical pathways we have no control over are the primary factors in the decisions we make? I don't think so, but I'm open to changing my view!
gpt
I'd go one step further and say that the concept of free will is meaningless in any  universe.  If you are subject to laws in which cause leads to effect without exception, you cannot have acted otherwise and therefore your will is not free.  If you are not subject to such laws, you must be acting randomly (without cause), so your will is not your own.  These stand regardless of whether the brain works by neurons or magic.

The only distinction that is left to draw is whether or not the causes that are driving your actions can be identified as "you" - the difference between thinking with your own neurons or having your thoughts given to you by some external source.  There are coerced and uncoerced actions, but not "free" will.