That's a clever joke. I however have radical freedom!

Chooses to put the book outside

Unless we have a way to find out what that predetermined future is, it's irrelevant and you should proceed as if it isn't a thing.

When I was like 7 my mom bought me a choose your own adventure book. I tried to read it cover to cover and was very confused.

Haha, fuck fate. I have free will!

Throws the book in the fireplace

But the book only has 71 pages

One cauld rightfully argue "determination" and "predetermination" are wildly different concepts. The comic is wrong on this. But let's go page 72 anyway

Hell yeah how good is determinism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UebSfjmQNvs - Kurzgesagt - Lemmings will reee optimistic greenwashing.

Can Free Will be Saved in a Deterministic Universe? PBS Space Time - And it's counter argument page https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2020/11/15/free-will-video/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/free-will-is-only-an-illusion-if-you-are-too/ - I'm glad to the coincidence regarding see my semantics point regarding 'Free will' being a somewhat outdated term being a key point in this article.

And yet I can speak about my consciousness, and therefore deliver information to you based on an experience which can't be physically observed or quantified.

Perhaps the universe is naught but a comforting illusion.

Would be nice if there was a hidden ending on page 57

I am disappointed in how long it took me to see the joke, but its a good one! I'm gonna have to go with page 72.

This reminds me of that one riddler comic (Found it, batman black and white #5 "The Riddle", here's a reddit link since that was the easiest to find https://www.reddit.com/r/batman/comments/tn8b68/ )

It's a creative and very short choose your own adventure and I highly recommend it

Source?

*turns to page 60 like a boss

Which book is this?

Relevant pbs spacetime video (discovery about microtubules relevant to theory of quantum consciousness)

Can you agree but also conclude that this knowledge has no real impact on our lives, and therefore our agency is preserved?

Robert Sapolsky's books are challenging but worthwhile reads.

Your mind is a computer attempting to optimally fulfill several prerogatives which are determined primarily through evolutionary pressures. It is free to do this in the way it sees best and is free to adapt as the environment in which it operates changes, in the sense that it is not forced to override it's internal decisions and come to a different conclusion regarding how to act. I consider this to be free will. You may disagree, but that would be haggling over definitions, rather than facts.

Crucially, this definition is true regardless of whether the universe's course is predetermined or not. I personally don't think it is, because a good chunk of the universe is random and I find it hard to believe that that randomness was predetermined.