schneebyte

I think they are just slaves of the system(s) like everyone else. We might perceive them as having more freedom or power but at the end of the day they are just a human and they will never be more than one. They live, they suffer, they die just like everyone else.

Maybe you have a different definition of free will.

But to me those examples are just knowledge. Regardless of how many possible options, the process of making the choice would be free will, if it existed.

I prefer "flexible" stoicism, like Seneca.

In the scale of the universe (time and space) we are all insignificant, like tiny ants. One ant has more money than the others. Another ant is famous.

Don't be afraid of death. Enjoy living in the present. Try to do good.

Of course easier said than done.

Sometimes they can be a prerequisite for talk therapy to be useful. Or lets say, without them, the chance of success would be very low.

If your working on a distributed system, i think Erlang still has better tooling compared to Elixir. For example common test for integration/system testing and snabbkaffe for trace based testing.