[Avodah] Free Will vs. Physics

[Cantor Wolberg]

R' Sero wrote:   I think even a newborn has free will, and decides  
whether to cry or not.

We're talking semantics. A newborn baby has no more free will than the  
man in the moon. And to say it decides whether to cry or not
is incorrect. A newborn operates on instinct. True a baby is not a  
machine, but its responses are reflexive. Obviously, there comes a
time when it has free will, but not for a while. 
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