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True. What I meant was that free will as we typically consider it -- our _conscious self_ making a decision out of free will is an illusion. As you say:

>my brain has analyze the consequences of my action, and I am now at a point where I'm making a choice

If you differentiate between brain analyzing the consequences, and then _you_ making a decision, that is wrong. Research shows _you_ seem to be making a decision, but actually your brain has already made one. Of course, if you include unconscious neural activity as a conception of self, free will does exist but if only consider self that is conscious of itself, free will doesn't seem to exist.



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