Do you believe in free will?

[Edwardo Piet]

No I do not believe in free will. Whether our actions are fixed and 100% predetermined or whether they're probabilistic and undetermined, either way, where would our free will come in? I believe we have external freedoms and we also have the internal freedom of thought in the sense we are capable of thinking of, of imagining, a great many things. But the will itself cannot be free because the will wills us, whether it likes it or not, it is "us" in the sense it is the part of us that does the controlling, automatically.

I subscribe to the standard argument against free will:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ar..._free_will

:

"[...]If determinism is true, we are predictable and not free. If indeterminism is true, our actions are random and our will lacks the control to be held solely morally responsible."

I also like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Strawson#Free_will

: "[...]You do what you do, in any given situation, because of the way you are.
So in order to be ultimately responsible for what you do, you have to be ultimately responsible for the way you are — at least in certain crucial mental respects.
But you cannot be ultimately responsible for the way you are in any respect at all.
So you cannot be ultimately responsible for what you do."