Free Will
In the comments on
yellowmouser's journal here and here I engage the question of whether or not free will is an illusion (I think not). Updated to add: J argues against me here.
What are your thoughts on the question? Is it an interesting question or purely a polemic debate?
What are your thoughts on the question? Is it an interesting question or purely a polemic debate?

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In complexity theory, it isn't just the randomness of the world that makes it hard to predict, its also emergent behaviors of complex systems - basically, the interconnectedness of things and how structure evolves out of chaos in certain circumstances.
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