A common philosophical question is "Do we have free will?" This question is often asked in the context of discussions about determinism, which is the concept that every event is a direct consequence of events that preceded it.
The line of questioning is usually "If the Universe is deterministic and we know the initial conditions at the time of the Big Bang, then everything after that is mathematically predetermined. If this is the case, then there's nothing we can do to change the future and our concept of free will is just an illusion".
The rest of this series will systematically analyze this line of reasoning, starting with the question "Is the Universe deterministic?"
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