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The notion that we have freedom or autonomy as individuals is called free
will.
We believe that we are free to will our lives in any way we want.
Or are we being deluded by thinking we are free when we are not,
and we are just puppets in the hands of a more powerful being?
This is the question of free will and it speaks directly
to the nature of reality.
If we can't know all of nature, isn't it possible
that deep down there are laws that do dictate everything?
Could nature be our clockwork mechanism, satisfying rigid laws,
and we just don't know about it?
It could, at least in principle.
Does it matter if we are characters in a simulation
and don't know about it like the slaves in Plato's cave?
Can we be that blind to reality?
