Does free will exist?

[Xcano]

In the hypothetical instance that we are able to perfectly predict all human behavior for all time with some master equation, what is stopping us from defying our supposed destiny once we're made aware of it?

That would ALSO be apart of the equation

All atoms from the Big Bang until the end of time have a specific direction and speed they were going, with an infinitely powerful computer you could calculate where ALL of those atoms are going to end up. This includes your brain. You don't telekinetically move the atoms around to make thought, the atoms go where they go because a previous event made them do that. You don't have any choice in the same way pool balls don't have a choice of where they roll.

 

[FlusteredBat]

That would ALSO be apart of the equation

All atoms from the Big Bang until the end of time have a specific direction and speed they were going, with an infinitely powerful computer you could calculate where ALL of those atoms are going to end up. This includes your brain. You don't telekinetically move the atoms around to make thought, the atoms go where they go because a previous event made them do that. You don't have any choice in the same way pool balls don't have a choice of where they roll.

Please refer to the conversation above concerning the falsifiability of determinism.

 

[Xcano]

Please refer to the conversation above concerning the falsifiability of determinism.

Your statements about how if something could accurately predict everything we could just defy it? Wouldn't out defiance have also been calculated? Everything you think you're doing "against" your will would already be there, or maybe what's predicted is impossible to avoid.