If it helps you understand me better, John:
  I am agnostic.
  I see "belief" as a cognitive process, not a religious one.

  And while many of our systems and cognitive processes are, more
  or less, very sophisticated machines, nevertheless, a form of
  free will is present, at least in my belief system.

  MUCH of what we think of as free will *is* an illusion.

  But until some evidence tells me that apwr20385hapowea oad is a
  precisely predictable response based upon past inputs, I have
  choice.