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PROPOSITION 1

Free will is impossible inside a deterministic simulation.

FOR — 44%AGAINST — 56%
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TOP ARGUMENT FOR

If every state follows from a prior state by fixed rules, then every choice was already encoded in the initial conditions. The experience of choosing is a process running inside the simulation — the output of a function, not genuine agency.

TOP ARGUMENT AGAINST

The simulation could be non-deterministic at the quantum level. More importantly: if your subjective experience of choosing feels real, and that experience itself is a physical process in the simulation, then will is real in the only sense that matters. The label 'determined' doesn't negate the experience.

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