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This is also a deep philosophical debate. I just meant that your decisions are based on internal and external circumstances, that are based on the physical world. Your decision is an effect of multiple causes (e.g. your mood, your beliefs, state of chemicals in your brain, weather, news that you’ve seen in tv, your genes, your childhood memories, etc). The “free will” as commonly understood would be then an independent act, a miracle that defies the constraints of physical world.

I’m not that well versed in philosophy to dive deeply into theory, but I don’t see a self-refutation. There is obviously a problem of first cause, but I don’t think it refutes my argument about free will. Also, I think Universal Causation is mostly non-controversial and most people agree on it and operate accordingly.

If you believe that every effect has a cause, then you might question the notion of “free will” that most people believe in. This means that regardless if it’s “simulation” or not, we can’t “change” anything.