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More on "Free Will"

It can't be denied that I, Jack Lee, am choosing to write this blog. It can't be denied that I, Jack Lee, will be making the decision to publish it as a book if and when it happens. But what has led to these "choices"? How am I choosing? Did the choice to write this come from a decision I made recently, or long ago? What is my motive for writing it? How did the motive come about? The way it seems to me is that, since "I" am a product of my upbringing, DNA, experiences, education and all the chance events in my life that have led to my opinions, beliefs and knowledge, I can't possibly see how "I" made the decision to create this blog at all.  Look at it another way: had I become someone else, that is, for example, met other people, read other books, acquired other influences, had a different upbringing, had a family (and therefore less time to think so deeply about the kind of stuff I think about) then there may well have been a likelihood
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Implications for The Grand Algorithm.

Since every one of us is due to The Grand Algorithm, a number of things that we take for granted as being our responsibility, for better or worse, simply aren't so. None of is here due to our hard work. No person is born thanks to their efforts, nor their decision. What we think of as "free will" can't possibly be anything other than an illusion. How did we have "free will" to be who we are in the first place, let alone have the specific DNA that produced our brains, bodies and regenerative powers that keep us alive as long as we remain alive?  How can we be responsible for our actions, when our actions are determined long before our existence? Because if every single event leads to the next event, how can inevitability be anything other than the sole creator of all moments of our lives? There is no free will. Again, I'm not saying that is the way things are. All "I" am saying is that I can see no other way. "I" am a product of
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What is The Grand Algorithm?

The Grand Algorithm is, as far as I can possibly make out, responsible for everything that is. I can see no other way than all things, all phenomena, all events - whether on a cosmic, relative scale or a microscopic, quantum scale - exist thanks to a single Grand Algorithm, from which absolutely everything that happens, happens.  There has to be a grand algorithm for all things: for the chaos, the order, The Big Bang, and for everything that followed it. How can it be any other way? How can it be that something - anything - could happen, or have happened, other than it did? Everything now, from the way the butterfly flaps its wings and the tornado forms, thanks to what we now call "The Butterfly Effect", to the thoughts that occur inside my head, from the chance neutrino passing through my body, or the chance mutation of a single gene in my DNA to some chance event causing it, is thanks to The Grand Algorithm. The Grand Algorithm is, for want of a better word,
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