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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The short form: the answer depends on assumptions within the question, and the assumptions required to call the question relevant to everyday life are way too restrictive to be useful in any definitive macroscopic way.