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That is what I said.
The person I was responding to was saying that " We effectively have free will " just because "you would need something larger than existence " to process the data that predicts the Universe.
I was giving the example of the computer as a way to show that this is not typically the way we understand "free will", it's not about actually being able to predict things, not necessarily.
Yeah and I agree.
Yeah and I agree