Free Will

[Whateverist]

I suspect we have just as much room for maneuver in our actions after studying philosophy as we did before. Anyone who thinks that all their actions are predetermined and then justified after the fact, should really try to get a meal ordered at a restaurant without making a decision. Our unconscious minds do not always care about the tasks that concern us consciously enough to alleviate us of all involvement. We make our decisions based on our imperfect and always evolving knowledge of our likes and dislikes. These likes and dislikes are not ours to choose, but neither are they altogether known to us. More often we have to get it wrong before we know what our preferences truly are, and I doubt very seriously that all our likes and dislikes are known in advance at any level of consciousness whatsoever. If that's all there is to determinism, I see no reason to be concerned.