Here's some more thoughts on free will related to Dennet's book.
If the world is determined, but we don't know what the future is going to be, why don't we just act the way we think is useful and assume that's the way it's supposed to go.
It is meaningless to talk about freedom or life on the level of atoms. It is also meaningless to talk about those concepts at the astronomical scale. Planets and stars live and die and we're just a spec in the grand scheme of things. It is only "useful" to think about concepts such as life and decision at the medium, biological scale, or perhaps slightly higher at the level of the brain (which is still biology, but just more complex).
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