An idea from Ethics

Every wish you have was caused, and so was that cause, with no first link. An infant thinks it freely wants milk, and a drunk thinks he freely says what he regrets once sober. Philosophers still argue about free will, and this is its hardest denial.

From Ethics by Baruch Spinoza

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