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Not "red pill OR blue pill" but more like "red pill and MIGHT've been blue pill"

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In my previous article I covered, from my point of view, the subject of free will . After rereading it, I became aware of some of the logic faults it contained and decided to give the matter a bit more thought. This concept is always bugging me because it seems that we are constantly constrained by the decisions we "make". Somebody even suggested that my logic basically implies destiny , well I don't believe in destiny, because of the effects of quantum mechanics. Still, I came to realize that we are not far from the concept of predeterminism. Now I am an atheist and that means that I don't believe in concepts like "souls" ; also, I consider human beings and living organisms in general to be nothing more than extremely complex systems but which are undoubtedly ruled by both the cause and effect principle and in some cases random outcomes. In other words I don't see the fundamental difference between a human and something as a bunch of rocks reactin