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The Question of Free Will
It depends on how you really want to think about free will a and certainly there is space for contemplated choice, or what you might even want to call rational choice. Almost certainly the the brain is a causal machine, and we certainly do feel differently and make different kinds of decisions as a function of the neuro chemicals that happen to be sloshing round s hat a particular di when you're really tired. On the other hand, the whole issue of free will really arises in a very special context. It arises in the context of the law and of holding people responsible lain and responsid.