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To what degree of "free will" are we talking about here? I believe people do have free will, but that there are requirements/stipulations/rules placed on people by society, culture, laws, religion, physiology that pigeon hole us and limit our ability to exercise our free will.
I could go in the kitchen, grab a knife, walk out-side and hack up some kid playing down the street. I could do that. I have the ability. There's no universal equilibrium that will stop me. I choose not to do that, one cause that would violate my internal code of conduct and two I would go to jail/be killed myself. In that way I know there is free will.
Now whether or not there is some force in the universe conspiring to herd us in a particular direction through external influences...
I was under the impression that Chaos Theory had been proven false. I'm not sure where I'd heard that. Some thing about the minute changes we're talking about here end up being absorbed into complex systems. I'm no mathematician here so somebody else might know more about it than I.
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