Is free will real?

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Observe free will? No, you can't observe it. It's a hypothesis. You can observe people claiming to have free will though. That's not the same thing.

You could only observe it if you could somehow replay the conditions of a "choice" again exactly, and to see if a different decision was made. And even if it was, you then have to determine how the choice is being made, be it random or whatever.

The thing is, what we think we experience as free will may just be quantum randomness. So whether or not you call it a "choice" depends on how you define it, and at what level.