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Free will doesn't exist, but we can't perceive ourselves as anything but free creatures.
The way I like to see life is like a striped funnel: you're going in that direction and will ultimately die, and there are a series of things you will encounter (the various colored stripes) and others you can and can't encounter.
I can only perceive me as endowed with free will, but I can think of a synthesis between free will and determinism. So if my father and grandfather had some kind of illness, I know I will probably have it too, if I'm born in Germany I know I'll never be U.S. President, if I was born poor I know that I probably won't be able to do some things.
But if we're talking about "how reality works", we aren't really free.
This makes me think of MGS2's ending