If I'm being completely honest, I dont really believe we have free will. Or we do, but in an almost entirely meaningless way on a civilizational scale. While you might be able to make small choices, material conditions and the flow of history ultimately decide the course of your life. We're all just products of our environment which none of us can change on our own, and as much as we can change our environment as a collective is decided upon by current conditions which are determined by oast conditions, etc. Basically i think the entirity of history was determined at the big bang, and were all just along for the ride.
Yeah basically. The fun thing is that there is no way you could differentiate between your "free will" and what you actually do. You can choose to do something and if you do it you were always going to do it at that point in that manner, but because you chose to do it, it is free will even though things had to happen that way,
It's a bit vulgar, but if you take the materialist argument to be true, then we're all clumps of matter obeying universal laws. including the firing of our neurons. You can't break the universal laws so you've got to follow them. Even if some of the quantum level stuff is a bit unpredictable, that doesn't mean it doesn't follow certain laws or that its outcomes aren't fixed. We're on The Path but since we can't possibly see it we get to feel like there is none.