free will

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No machine has free will, conscience, spiritual depth, the capacity for love, or the ability to grow through hardship, sacrifice and contemplation.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

"The look's actually so awesome and weird. I recommend just exercising your free will it's really fun and silly :D."

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

Instead, the fantasyland they live in is one they made of their own free will.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2026

But the terminally dissatisfied Carol would rather stew in her own low-grade depression and angst that forfeit her free will.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

"I possess nothing,” said Siddhartha, "if that is what you mean. I am certainly without possessions, but of my own free will, so I am not in need.”

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse