+1
I really do think that it's just not easy for you guys to accept the idea that there's no free will because of the makeup of your mind. I can see myself not believing it all really either years ago. Maybe. If I did, I would have attached a more spiritual/religious/God thing to it, I'm sure. I kinda do now, even.
I've actually been open to this possibility before I discovered Sam Harris and before I read his Free Will book. It was an internet search I made on this subject that led to me finding all of this stuff last year, anyway. In fact, it was around this time last year. But BEFORE that happened, I really wasn't convinced of it like I am now. That book and reading what other people said about this changed everything. I did suspect that we were basically under the control of our brain, genes, etc. But I didn't really realize... how much so. It never really dawned on me that everything I was thinking and everything I was doing was really being created first and foremost by my brain, without my control of it. I should have figured that out, though.
It makes total sense to me. We are just evolving creatures, changing and adapting every day. You learn something new -- it's added to the web of your self. It's like a patchwork quilt -- you just keep adding patches and patches and patches that add on to the total you. All I can possibly do depends on what patches I have. A year from now, I'll have new patches. I and everyone else constantly evolves. If you don't have a certain patch yet, that's not available to you. You can't consciously know something until it's patched onto you. And it's really random in regards to how you end up patched. Because you're never in control at all. Something you do comes from another patch of yourself. So, if you guys can't accept that there's free will, it's because you haven't been patched yet to accept it as the truth. I cannot control if you'll be patched or not and neither can you. If it happens, it happens.