I believe we have limited freedom, about 30% free and the rest is not under our control. It is not our choice about: ~how wealthy our parents are so they can give us the best and ensure our future, ~how the genes we inherited affect our health and intelligence, ~catching diseases, ~getting into accidents, ~marrying the wrong person, ~the religion we were brought up with and so on. Here's what scares me. Besides not having the power to choose how our life is set up for us, some say we can't do anything using free will. Even our thoughts are not free. Some neuroscientists have said any decision you make is not truly free but actually determined by neural processes outside of your conscious control. It's like really being an android, not what we think of as human . The quotes below are from the link Neuroscience and Free Will Are Rethinking Their Divorce "Luckily, for those who find this state of affairs philosophically (or existentially) perp
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