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Surgeon stimulates your brain to map out his location when removing a tumor. You move your arm or lose visual perception or have an emotion or feel like someone's tickling your feet or have a memory. You are not in control of this behavior when the surgeon stimulates your brain.
When your head is closed up, there are 10s of millions of little stimuli going to your brain and stimulating your gray matter in a way identical to what the surgeon was doing. These stimuli are called your senses. Instead of a doctor zapping a general area of brain tissue, these stimuli have complex physical inputs and are connected in very fine and regular ways to your brain.
Every act you have while moving about as an individual is as much in "your" control as your behavior under the stimulus of the surgeon on the operating table.
The idea of free will is an illusion. It's integral to the illusion of self. We ULTIMATELY do not have free will. We are ultimately, all of us, a confluence of events and not an end in ourselves. You are a product of your environment in every sense of the world. You're akin to a tornado that forms out of complex weather patterns.
You are an a-moral being. Good and evil are illusions. Life/death are illusions. Fear/desire are illusions. All just ideas in our heads that define our behavior. You reading this text right now is an example of stimuli entering your brain and based on your previous construction (i.e. development up to this time), you will incorporate this information into your being in some form or another (or reject it in some form).
This is not disputed. It is the consensus of the modern scientific community. Humans are an emergent property of the universe. This is what modern molecular/cellular biology and neuroscience illustrates.
With this realization, you can see that the idea of a god that punishes or rewards based on your choices in life is an illusion. You can see that any idea of a separate entity is a product of the illusion. The difference between you and me is arbitrary. Just because my skin doesn't enfold your neurons doesn't mean we're some different process. As a matter of fact, my neurons are interacting with your neurons in complex ways as you read this text.
The idea of any individual entity with responsibility is a product of the fundamental illusion that makes us human.
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