Do we have free will?

People do have the ability to go all Purge on others. Look up Ted Bundy. Most of us don't do it due to a combination of being scared of the consequences and disgusted by the idea.

Video games remove the real consequences of violence and despite their realistic graphical portrayal come nothing close to the personal horror of actually taking another life. It's interactive Hollywood; you leave the screen and whatever seeming events just transpired are instantly non-relevant.

Ok, well those things are quantum mechanics, which is random in some sense at least(although there are views that it is not). It doesn't mean that the normal distribution indicates any kind of randomness.

Well, if we had all the information in the world, then we would probably be able to predict how the next respondent would vote by a certainty of 99.999999...lots of nines...%. And why it would not be 100% would be due to the possibility of quantum fluctuations making atoms in the respondent's brain rearrange so that he would vote something else, or something like that. If quantum mechanics was deterministic we would be 100% sure. In both these cases, in absence of that information, we could make curves of distribution to imperfectly predict the next vote. It says nothing about whether the there is any true randomness in the system.

There is no randomness in classical physics.

@mjorh: how about having the free will to get something behind a wall but being unable to get it. We have the will to do impossible things. The possible things we can do is very predictable.

@hillelslovak: Hitchens is missed.

Nope just been down to bookies and lost.

Isaac Bashevis Singer was the one who said this, Hitchens merely quoted it.

And Hitchens attributed that sentence to others whenever he spoke it.

Was i correcting Hitchens or the poster?

Ah. Good to know who originally stated it.

I suspect this idea is common among millennials who require instant gratification in all things. Oh no I can't get what I want when I want it now. Suicide. Like you said you're young and stupid and worry about things you don't really need to.

1. employment

2. no credit card debt

3. don't waste time at university/college in humanities courses and absolutely don't get student loans for these. These courses should be free. How can professors mark you on your opinion on some guys opinion of something that happened in history.... what to be a parrot and just regurgitate what the prof wants to hear ?

4. do not spend more then you make.

5. Network & meet people. Sitting around on the computer lamenting about how your life sucks to a video game forum won't make things better. Who cares what people think. Be strong & decide to make your life better.

6. You do not need religion. You have willpower use it. You don't need the approval of some arbitrary make believe being. Anyone who follows religion is automatically exempt from determinism or free will.

I think we have free will, it's our mind. God didn't give us brain, so He could control our actions too. I get to choose whether to be good or bad, even when I love, it's because I want to deep down.

1- What does spiritual even mean, Its always seemed a nonsensical term, the meaning of the word varies dramatically depending on who you ask.

2 - What makes you believe in a God or Gods ?

Normally , a rich person have more free will. such as having a million.

We may or may not have free will, but we will always experience reality as if we do. The question is not whether we have free will or not but whether the world is determined or not.

Yes absolutely you do, although you may choose to believe you don't.

When you exercise your free will it causes a collapse in the wave function, in other words, you make a choice.

@mjorh: yes