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Originally Posted by Journeyman
The best I could ever get out of the whole hubbubb is the really horrid problem of how I can have a subjective experience when I am composed entirely of objects. Free will or not, I'm still experiencing things in a manner that goes beyond atomic billiard balls reacting to one another.
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That's one way to look at it. However, what we call Free Will is merely a survival instinct. Many animals have free will. You can tell this because even our pets have different personalities (caused by the random arrangement and availibility of chemicals). We use our free will to get us out of difficult situations and to work in teams. Extra stuff that we create from free will (art, music, etc) is intended for pleasure. Pleasure is a survival instinct.
It all fits together if you let it.