Free Will: Fact or Fiction

[Darkstar]

Until we can create and program a machine with the complexity of the human brain that acts in a way indistiguishable from a real human, we won't know for sure. We have at the very least the illusion of free will; the brain combined with nature vs. nurture would create complexity so great that it might be indistiguishable from free will. I understand how our likes and dislikes are not entirely voluntary, but the envirinment is way too complex to know for sure if it is inborn, or perhaps an indirect result of other likes or dislikes, because of a similarity between them (but then, maybe the 'lkes and dislikes' would have to be distilled into a list of very basic traits that are ascribed to thing that are liked or disliked, and those traits cause the like or dislike). Some people are 'prone to violence' but they can resist the urge. Does this prove free will? Maybe, but not necessarily. I don't think we can know for sure at this point.