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>>12547459
Yes, sounds like meaningless gibberish, just like most claims about probabilities. People don't realize how fragile the whole subject is.
I refuse to consider any statements about probabilities as meaningful unless they come as a precise statement in completely mathematical language about measure spaces with no mention of likelihood, or if they're formulated in a way that's easy to make an algorithm to simulate the probability empirically and check its value.
Since your claim is neither, it's meaningless.

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>Good reasons given to doubt the immediate perception of free will for those who have it: 0
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>>12159548
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4. Determinism is conclusively disproved by quantum phenomena.
For example, the splitting of an atom which is an indeterministic process (impossible to predict the measurement using any theoretical laws of physics) can have large scale direct influence over the real world. For example, I might test if an atom is split after some small amount of time, if it is then I go to the store while if it's not I stay at home. Since the measurement is indeterministic and has large scale real life consequences, it conclusively refutes determinism.
5. Therefore, I don't know any good reasons to believe that my own immediate perception of my free will is flawed and not to be trusted.
6. Therefore, it's reasonable for me to believe that I have free will.

Discuss.

Puzzle:
Find polynomials f(x), g(x), h(x) such that the set {(f(n), g(n), h(n)) : n natural} contains infinitely many primitive pythagorean triples.