In some sense, you have just chosen to read this essay... or at least to start it. But was this a free choice and if so, in what sense? If you're surreptitiously reading a philosophy essay when you should be working, can you be blamed for this? These are the sorts of questions that intrigue people in the age-old philosophical debate about "Free Will", which tends to get muddied by its archaic name and the strong emotions it excites. Beyond the rhetoric, though, are two relatively clear questions. Is every choice we make determined by past events ultimately beyond our control? And in what sense does the answer make us free or unfree? Too often people just assume that if the answer to the first question is 'no', free will is home and dry - in fact, both answers have implications for it. Determinists often answer the first question with a confident 'yes.' Many think that the scientific revolution, particularly since Newton gave his neat equations of motion, has shown that the universe is a well-oiled machine. Just as you can predict the operation of an old-fashioned clock if you know....

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