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This solution provides an introduction to the psychological and philosophical question of human free-will.

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Einstein was once asked, "Do you believe that humans are free agents? " His response was. "No, I am a determinist. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Humans beings, vegetables, or comic dust we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player" (Isaacson, 2007, p. 391-392). Some people would say that humans are completely determined due ...

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