Evolutionary selection is mostly deterministic. Though, not being a biologist, I'm not sure how random the gene mutations are. I know quantum can be truly random. Also, I had no say in the evolution that resulted in me, nor the default wiring I was born with.

The knowledge that there is no free choice/will would make some people apathetic. They would not endure (because "what's the point"). Evolution, through eons of selection, has given pretty much all vertebrate life a drive to survive. So even though I don't see how one can logically point to free will, that's still in me. So I (used to) go to work, save money, eat, etc. Without the hard-wired drive to survive, our species would have ended very quickly. I'm not so morose that I dwell on it. I may have no free will, but I can't really detect that. It seems I am making choices, and every day is a new day (some filled with unanticipated surprises), and I go through them without a thought about free will. For me the subject is purely academic. It's an interesting exercise, and occasionally someone has a new angle on it.

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