If you feel like you have free will, go ahead and live out your life as though free will is real.
NOTHING is real as it seems. That hot girl or guy you like, that one who fills out a pair of jeans so nicely, is actually 99.99% empty space. QM particles are squirrely little fuckers that just won't behave properly, and they make up everything. We have no access to reality but through our experience, and yet we have convinced ourselves that mind is the least real / least important thing there is.
Here's the funny thing about determinism. If all the forces in the universe line up so that you will be a happy, fun-filled person, then yeah, maybe you were always going to be that. So PRETEND you really have the freedom to choose you have free will-- because however you live life was how you were going to live it, and that choice to be happy is part of that.
Does that make sense? Whatever you choose is what you were going to choose due to determinism-- so you can still choose whichever paths you want, and maybe you'll find out later that you were predetermined to live that wonderful life.
NOTHING is real as it seems. That hot girl or guy you like, that one who fills out a pair of jeans so nicely, is actually 99.99% empty space. QM particles are squirrely little fuckers that just won't behave properly, and they make up everything. We have no access to reality but through our experience, and yet we have convinced ourselves that mind is the least real / least important thing there is.
Here's the funny thing about determinism. If all the forces in the universe line up so that you will be a happy, fun-filled person, then yeah, maybe you were always going to be that. So PRETEND you really have the freedom to choose you have free will-- because however you live life was how you were going to live it, and that choice to be happy is part of that.
Does that make sense? Whatever you choose is what you were going to choose due to determinism-- so you can still choose whichever paths you want, and maybe you'll find out later that you were predetermined to live that wonderful life.
