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Is that basically saying that at some level, we should be able to see effects that have no cause? Is that what freewill boils down to?



I don't know. "effects with no cause" makes me think of the 'quantum soup' at zero-point energy levels: things just appearing and disappearing in some random way. I don't know if that could be classified as 'causeless' though.


More like effects whose cause we can't ascribe... would have a free will component to their cause. It seems a bit silly because wherever you can ascribe a cause, there's no free will, so when is there free will?


> so when is there free will?

I open to the possibility that the answer is never.




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