Free Will

I just read an article in the NYT Science section this week about free will.

I did not will to be born, and it is likely that I will not will to die, but that does not imply that free will does not exist.

Even in classical mathematics irrational numbers contain an intrinsic level of uncertainty. If everything is determined one will think that free will does not exist. But if there is always going to be a next digit in the value of the square root of the number two, and no human being will ever know this next number until it is calculated, this mathematical fact opens the door for the concept of free will.

If the future is not determined by the past, then there is the possibility of free will. We know that mathematics does not give a unique prediction for the future, even in simple arithmetic operations, so within our formal mathematical methods, there is room for free will.