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The issue of free will bewildered and puzzled many philosophers in the past. Being a permanent student of philosophy, I came to the following troubling counclusion:

I cannot accept the existence of free will. We are all natural robots. Each and every decision or choices we make depends on our previous experience which either external or our internal reactions to them. The first hours of our experience depends purely on our genetic code. And our external world and genetic code are the products of chain of causes called evolution which can be traced back to the Bing Bang. Everything started from Big Bang. Even this letter was the determined by the position and form of atoms created after Being Bang. I did not design my genetic code, nor I picked my parents. The country and the time of my birth was not decided by me either. My sex nor my intellectual and emotional capabilities are my choice. I am entirely a product of external conditions and my deceptively "free" choices were in fact created and led by a myriad of vital and minute conditions.  

I do not have reason (i,e., liberty) do disagree with Nietzsche:

"This will, or rather the brain, finds itself in the same situation as a bowl (as in bowling alley), which, although it has received an impulse that drives it forward in a straight line, is deranged in its course whenever a force superior to the first obliges it to change its direction. . . In short, the actions of man are never free; they are always the necessary consequence of this temperament, of the received ideas, and of the notions, either true or false, which he has formed to himself of happiness; of his opinions, strenthened by example, by education, and by daily experience."

Those who attempt to rationalize the concept of free will are like 3 year-old kids who talk about Einstain's theory of relativity: they have no idea what are they talking about.
 

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