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This discussion is awesome. I'm very fascinated by the determinism vs free will concept. And I guess probability outcomes derived through quantum observations is a third option - but that's not still free will in my opinion, it's also a form of determinism with just some funny uncontrollable variable.

Whenever I do something stupid, let's say a mistake at work where I've denied a patient an x-ray and it later turns out that he or she suffers from deadly cancer, nowadays I just shake it off and think "no reason to feel bad about it, to feel guilt or being ashamed or anything, I couldn't have made that in any other way by my own will, my cause of actions were predetermined to happen exactly like they did".