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I believe it's a rather fruitless question.
Do I believe that chemical and physical determinism in my neural activity determine my choices? That I am a machine designed to process information and that a combination of my genetics and experience plus random neural activity combine to form my so-called "choices"?
Yes.
Do I care? Not in the least.
Choice may not be a physical reality, but remains a human reality nonetheless. We can argue pointlessly whether choice has some sort of metaphysical reality so that we can affirm or refute skullfunk's physical deterministic answer, but the point is that sitting here in front of my computer, at this moment, I have choice. In my life, I am faced with options and I make decisions.
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