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by nailuj 2886 days ago
Not necessarily, there could still be effects of true randomness that are not influenced by previous causes.
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That doesn't really give us free will, otherwise the NPCs in videogames would have free will (since they experience and react to events in-universe which are effectively absolutely unpredictable since they come from outside the universe).

Maybe the universe is a simulation and the randomness we observe when we look at quantum fluctuations comes from /dev/urandom in God's computer. That doesn't really get us anywhere when it comes to the nature of consciousness and free will.

True randomness is also beyond the control of the individual so it's not a "will".