The defining case where we unambiguously lack free will is when there’s another agent that actively constrains our actions. But for one agent to constrain another, it has to be able to anticipate the other’s potential actions—which depends on the abilities of the constraining agent, not the one constrained.

We have (I think) an instinctive sense of when our behavior is susceptible to that kind of directed constraint, and the idea of a deterministic universe raises the possibility that that susceptibility can’t be escaped—but only if there’s a constraining agent that can actually exploit the susceptibility.

Hossenfelder has put some out on her youtube channel. Its basically since everything can be determined from previous states and mehanisms we don't have free will. I think I would need to go through it again. Personally I find free will and not free will to be sorta pointless. If everything we do is based on processes but those same processes dictate our personality and how we react to our environment. Well that just as well is just the framework of our will. Yeah you could call it not free because we like what we like and don't like what we don't like but life itsself is an opportunity to test the levels of those choices. We overindulge and don't like something as much for some time or get completely turned off and we grow to like something we used to hate. Its the process of life itself this recieving of sensory input and action output that acts and interacts with the world and other life that also acts and interacts. We define ourselves with our actions which influence how we make decisions in the future and the world molds us to do it as well. Its all the same.

I act as though I am responsible for my actions and treat others as if they are responsible for theirs. However, I reject any non-materialistic view of reality. The "gap" is a lack of an explanatory and determinative model of consciousness.

Sorry, I kinda hate typing on my phone. And I made the assumption that this audience would have an appreciation of the nature of reality.

Chaotic systems; are systems that future states cannot be determined by information about the current state or past states.

examples:

• The double pendulum
• Chaotic water drop
• The three body problem
• Basically all of fluid dynamics - and by extension weather prediction.
• Quantum mechanics - I can't really give a specific example...because all of it is statistical in nature.

There are so many examples in reality where the interactions have unknowable future states. Not just because of lack of information; but because the outcomes exist in a probability space, there is no determined outcome.

The universe is non-deterministic in reality; we KNOW this. It hasn't been up for debate for a long time. So arguing from a deterministic universe point of view, is a thought experiment; it doesn't reflect reality.

I'm more interested in reality; thus the non-deterministic universe situations are the only ones worth serious consideration.

I am not saying that having free will means that you have any choice open to you. Are your choices in any given situation constrained, yes! Are there situations where it feels like you have to choose a preset option, sure, and it doesn't feel like there was much point in having the "choice".

But in every situation, you will always have a choice. Sometimes the choices will be shit, the worst of the worst; do I kill my baby to save a room full of people, or do I let it cry out and have the soldiers hear us and kill us all....