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Do we really have any free will? All of our decisions are influenced by our environment and surroundings- thus not 'free'. Even though we make a choice out of several choices it doesn't mean that it was a completely objective, or 'free' choice. In fact, you could easily make the argument it is impossible to reach an objective point of view.
I think it's really hard to explain, but I hope you guys get my point.
Discuss.
It depends on how you define 'free will'. Our actions are the product of the decisions of a mind which arise from a physical environment. The condition of that environment (the brain), naturally, effects the condition of the mind and the way it operates.
There is free will, so long as we are sure to define it as conscious decision-making within the context of the emergence of the mind from these electrochemical processes.
There is the experience of free will. That is, we experience what appears to our consciousness to be a free choosing of our own actions. Therefore, we can say with as much certainty as is possible that we have and exercise free will, with a simple footnote that this conclusion remains as agnostic as all knowledge within a positivist worldview. That we have free will is self-evident as much as our own existence.