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I'm less interested in this question than I was when I was younger. It seems to me that we have the feeling of free will, and that's all that matters, independent of whether we "actually" control own own destinies. The fact that we believe free will exists makes life worth living. If I didn't believe in free will, I would kill myself, or at least hope that suicide had been prearranged for me by the Big Bang. (As an aside, I think suicide is evidence that free will does, in fact, exist, but trying to prove so is as futile as proving the presence or absence of God.)