What do we do while deciding if free will exists?

[Mudhammam]

What happens when you are presented with a field of data so massive as to be incalculable? I mean, absolutely and hopelessly incalculable?

The same thing you do in every moment of your life! Lol. Your brain contains something of an "editing room" that cuts it down so as to make situations calculable. That's literally what a brain does! You are witness to this all of the time upon reflection. You experience that as a self contained in a body acting spontaneously or with a sense of justification.

It seems to me that you have to give up tracking the depths of reality, and rely on symbols and metaphors. If this weren't true, the term "butterfly effect" wouldn't exist. The difference between my position and Rhythm's, I think, is how we see the relationship between symbols and self. To me, the self IS the symbols and metaphors-- all the ideas that make up the world view. To Rhythm, I think, the self is a human animal with a brain, i.e. the self is the body which USES the symbols and metaphors.

It kind of sounds like a dispute between the meanings of human and human-itself, or self and self-itself... That's like boxing with your shadow.