Free will is an illusion, but so is the belief that free will is desirable. The fact that a roller-coaster’s path is predetermined doesn't make it any less fun.
We can't be sure that reality is in fact fundamentally stochastic. Bohr's theory hasn't been proven. But we can be reasonably sure that consciousness is a product of material interactions. This precludes free will, as it means we can't transcend the material make-up of our minds.
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You seem to be a super-determinist. I find it more likely that locality or realism will prove illusory. And we can’t yet prove it is / isn’t, but for the time being empirical observation leans toward the affirmative. And we’re ultimately still arrogant apes who know very little
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Yeah, I'm a hard determinist. I also find the many-worlds interpretation of QM more plausible than the Copenhagen one. (Not that the latter suggests free will; it simply suggests random will.) And yes, although the broad consensus is of no free will, it is a consensus of



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