To me, the claim to experience free will is like the claim of experiencing love. We know love exists because we all have experienced enough of it to know what the other person is talking about, we can correlate their behavior with memories of our own internal states. Free will is something we perceive ourselves exercising. Dissecting it into its component parts can make it seem as though it is only an illusion, but the same can be said for love. Does knowing the hormonal and neural states involved in love make it only a biological process and not an emotion, or is it a biological process AND an emotion? The alternative to free will is complete lack of autonomy (if free will is an illusion, so are a lot of other things that depend on it). I have to wonder if disbelieving in something it's impossible to act as if I disbelieve in makes sense.
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