Does free will exist?

i believe nietzsche made the analysis that the concept of free will was created by christianity because you can use it to blame people for being evil, instead of evil being in their nature

Consider youtube.com/watch?time_continue=108&v=Jint5kjoy6I

Quantum mechanics, and specifically the uncertainty principle, directly contradict determinism. However, this does not necessarily imply free will (the ability to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded). There will always be subjective biases, and involuntary subconscious responses to some stimuli.

In regard to OP's question, whatever ones views on free will and determinism, suicide is not the inevitable choice, but rather the weak and lazy option for people unwilling to give their lives meaning.

>does free will exist?
no
>If free will doesn't exist, everything is predetermined, does that mean suicide is inevitable one way or another for a person?
no

>That's a mind fuck if there really are more Boltzmann brains in the universe resembling human brains at any given time than actual human brains
Yeah, I just brought it up as one possible counterexample in which a brain could possibly exist without even the mechanical physically real type of free will. I don't think it's actually worth entertaining as a real possibility. Not just because of its seeming absurdity, but because if I were to accept that they do exist in such numbers then I'd also have to accept that I am one and even my current thought about the nature of such brains is itself a completely random delusion I was made with.

In other words, to accept Boltzmann brains is to simultaneously accept that your own logic in accepting it does not actually exist. It's probably better to be seen as a sign that any theory of the universe that relies on its creation being a totally random fluctuation in quantum fields will have to find some way to explain why Boltzmann brains DON'T exist (or at least are vastly outnumbered by brains in bodies in complete universes) before it can work as a theory in the first place.

We are made of particles which follow predetermined rules so free will is impossible as you can predict every particle's movement through time if you can work out the rules. Question is why does god make a universe which has no freedom?

>you can predict every particle's movement through time
Quantum mechanics is a thing.
see

As someone who's committed suicide twice and's survived (a la quantum immortality) both times, I can say that
> but rather the weak and lazy option for people unwilling to give their lives meaning.
is not always applicable. I tried killing myself because I had no hope left, my ability to ascribe meaning to things was overridden by subconscious aspects of my brain. where subconscious obsession of qualia overrode my ability to think consciously in a continuous manner. The meaning of what it meant to be alive boiled down to two things at two ifferent periods of time. One was that my life was too heavily entangled with another human being to allow me any sort of 'free' will, subsequently, after having committed my first suicide to escape previous said entabglement, my mind was filled with fire and the idea that I was going to hell, to which I acted with the premise that "Well, if hell is my fate, and I can't think properly with this image of fire so heavily imparted upon my mind, then why delay the inevitable if I can't contribute anything?" HOWEVER, I didn't die either time.

I wasn't unwilling to give my life meaning, I tried to. However, subconscious, frequent fabrications (fabrications which I did not decide to be there), made me lose hope and my belief in free thought.

Thankfully, after killing myself the fabrications subsided, though I'm more believing in the lack of free will from experience since then. I've felt the universe 'pulling' and 'pushing upon' me, at times being unable to counter the forces. Anyway, if you can prevent committing suicide, I'd suggest doing so. It can fuck you up spiritually in an extreme way. (halp

>We are made of particles which follow predetermined rules
no lol
they follow post-determined rules, unless you think newton came before the apple

Even if you have random effects there will still be some kind of logic controlling them which is deterministic. Everything even random effects must have some logic controlling them which is following a path set from the big bang. It's still all preordained.

>instead of evil being in their nature
Wouldn't that make them evil anyway? Why wouldn't >we blame them? Nietzsdsasd expected us to pity evil people?