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Re:Free will experiments reveal how little we know about our... by coldtea on Friday August 07, 2015 @08:12AM (#10021978)
>If you define free will as (2), then there is free will, since despite the context surrounding you, you can still make decisions independent of it.

How do you come to that? Obviously the state of our current surroundings and past histories determines the state of our brain and body (down to the firing of the very last neuron).

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Re:Free will experiments reveal how little we know about our... by ucaetano on Friday August 07, 2015 @08:43AM (#10022085)
> Obviously the state of our current surroundings and past histories determines the state of our brain and body (down to the firing of the very last neuron).

That's why I only said "current surrounding and context", I didn't include past histories.

Look at the machine-state example, it makes things more clear.

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