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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.

Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.