From the department of questions better not asked, is free will a hoax? Most people will respond harshly to this question as it jars their sensibilities. The truth of the situation is that it really doesn't matter, particularly if it is true. It's not likely both for reasons stemming from what we know of physics(Uncertainty principle...Copenhagen interpretation) that the world is completely deterministic. So there is at least the thrill of the unknown(at least so far from our known perspective).

Better yet, this is all a very simplistic approach to a common debate topic. There is no past or future, as time is only known from the experience of the present and a 'memory' of the past(which may or may not be, and quite often isn't, accurate). No one ever lives tomorrow or yesterday. No one experiences the outcome of a choice as by the time the perceived effects from said choices arise, the actual action of choosing and the factors that may have or may not have determined it are no longer in play. I'm not denying causation by this... I'm merely not presuming it.

We say that time is linear and that it occurs in a single direction only. But we base such deductions after our own limited experience with linear time(of which is in reasonable doubt already, from what I have heard). It would be better if we did not ponder questions when we are not master of all the possible facts.

-Sin