Free choice is a believable illusion until you can predict the future.

>  In the physical world as we know it, at macroscopic levels, every action
> is deterministic: Every event is just a deterministic consequence of some
> earlier events.

One you can predict the future (maybe by working out the result of all the 
deterministic events) then things get funkier because your deterministic 
events can have inputs from the future (maybe you'll see the lotto numbers 
from next week and buy a ticket).  But it's still totally predictable, (if 
you look you will also see yourself buying the ticket and winning).  And 
then you'll see that everything is totally predictable and you can't change 
anything (even if you try really hard not to, you will be forced to go and 
buy that ticket exactly as you had already seen).  Then there really is no 
free choice.

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