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Was it free will? Or was it the illusion of free will?

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  Determinist feel funny when someone says I have chosen it, this is my free will and freedom of choice... let us analyze it with a simple Event.   Florentyna , a young lady, 23. She felt hungry, so she ordered pizza from a food delivery app. When the pizza arrived, she took photos and posted it on social media and ate it. One can say she made her decision on her own out of her free will. Before Florentyna takes a decision, we should see what made her take that decision. The brain hard wiring, the hormones, the genes, the culture and so on... this is where the theory of determinism comes to play. Determinism is the idea that our choices are not as free as we see, but rather the product of a complex web of prior causes. Let’s go back before Florentyna even opened the food delivery app.   First, her genes. Obviously, she didn’t choose her genes. It is inherited from her parents. Those genes which she inherits shape her eye color, height, intellectual ability and als...