The idea that people make choices and they can be held responsible for their actions is not just useful for social control, but it's actually true. It's the best way we have of talking about people. We don't know where all the atoms and molecules in a person ar. And our best vocabulary and theory for talking about people is one that treats them as agents, able to make choices. I think what we learned from the physics, which you have so ably expounded for the non physicist, we can't keep free will within that description of reality,. right?

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