I am sure he does if the whales have free willy.

I don't believe we do, it is a very difficult question to answer, but I'll try my best... The body is matter (no suprises there I hope), but so is the mind. I simply cannot believe that there is a 'soul' or part of the mind that 'doesn't-exist-but-does'. Through research we have isolated genes and chemicals responsible for all kinds of emotions and processes. We can improve the memory of mice to make it last much longer, we can teach flies in one 'lesson' to fly away from certain smells, give people drugs to make them tell the truth... all based on physical molecules and chemicals; and we learn more each day. I see no need to introduce a dimentionless aspect of the mind. But this leaves a problem, how can molecules control other molecules? This would be required for free will. You see, to make a decision would require a molecule to do something (like sysnthesis protein, trigger impulse etc) which would cause a chain reaction, but another moleucle would be required to tell the original one to start! And so on. I realise this is a bit of a weak arguement! But I strongly belive (but did I choose to or not?!) that our knowledge of conciuosness and free will will continue until we have a much better understanding. Maybe some examples would help: How many times do you look at your watch, then realise you never looked at what the time was? Did you actually decide to look at the watch or did it just happen? When you hear a good joke can you decide not to find it funny? No, it just happens. Can you stop feeling bad if you uset a loved one? All this has led me to believe that our actions determined by stimulus from the outside world, sites, sounds etc, and the mind maps out the best solution, just like a computer, and then sends us the thought in a ready made package. And we innocently think that our decision was conciously devised.