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"People never like to hear they are controlled by chemicals since it makes trash of the notion of free will"

I do not think so, because the system of chemicals and electromagnetic fields that makes us us, are likely indefinitely complex.

"I" am the sum of it. And I can freely decide in that moment now, no matter that the "decision" can also be desribed as countless chemical and physical reactions (and that you can influence that).



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