Try give up all your bad habits, today. You (or at least most) will find that our "free" will is barely free on the margin. We're able to change, but not in an

Try give up all your bad habits, today. You (or at least most) will find that our "free" will is barely free on the margin. We're able to change, but not in an instant decision, more like a chemical process - slowly, methodically, by working at our inner animal. Many can't change, just stay stuck in their habits for life, despite how free we believe we are. > Before Descartes could proclaim "I think, therefore I am" he had to choose to make that proclamation. Not at all. I could program a PC to say that. We believe he chose that. A determinist might say he had as much choice as a plant. A person with his characteristics, given his context, would say something like that. Now if he chose to take up gymnastics and run away with the circus, that would be more like free will. Try acting out of character. Quite hard.