Do we have FREE WILL?

[MineralMan]

15. For an individual's existence, larger concepts about time are unnecessary.

We experience time much the same - all of us. Our experience is somewhat variable, but is evened out by natural phenomena.

We exert our free will in small increments, mostly. We limit ourselves to measurable timeframes. An hour, a day, a year. Most people recognize that they cannot accurately predict long-term effects of their decisions, although some like to believe they can.

Our lives are a continuous series of decisions - most of them minor and fleeting. We make them often without knowing why we make them, but we do make them nevertheless. We make them consciously or unconsciously. We use our reason to make some and our raw emotions to make others. But, still, we make choices, for better or worse. Free will. It exists, but isn't some weighty thing that requires a lot of philosophizing, I think. We do decide what we do, using whatever methods we use. Then, we live with the results, or die from them.