Our brain is processing more than trillions of possibilities every tenth of a second, but because our conscious selves can only comprehend so many we make a choice based off the ones our brains find would work best, and in fact, each of those decisions your brain processes is it creating an alternate reality.
Now, free will is our will to choose something. It has nothing to do with things pre-happening. lets say something may be bound to happen, but our minds will set out a choice on -HOW- it happens. Hence why prophecy never mentions exactly how said person would accomplish something, or how it would happen, only that it would happen.
As such, the arguement becomes do we have technical free will, or literal free will, and the debate on whether we have it ends.
In that case, yes to both. We have literal free-will sub-consciously, and if we were ever able to comprehend it to its full extent, we would have conscious free-will.
On the other hand, we have "technical" free will consciously in which we choose from viable options that seem to work the best. If you are looking at a pie, and deciding whether to eat it or not, your mind wouldn't have the ability to consciously comprehend much beyond eating, or not eating it, but would sub-consciously have multiple thoughts such as maybe building a blaster gun, or jumping out the nearby window while stabbing yourself with a butter knife 7 times. The possibilities are endless.
Now, free will is our will to choose something. It has nothing to do with things pre-happening. lets say something may be bound to happen, but our minds will set out a choice on -HOW- it happens. Hence why prophecy never mentions exactly how said person would accomplish something, or how it would happen, only that it would happen.
As such, the arguement becomes do we have technical free will, or literal free will, and the debate on whether we have it ends.
In that case, yes to both. We have literal free-will sub-consciously, and if we were ever able to comprehend it to its full extent, we would have conscious free-will.
On the other hand, we have "technical" free will consciously in which we choose from viable options that seem to work the best. If you are looking at a pie, and deciding whether to eat it or not, your mind wouldn't have the ability to consciously comprehend much beyond eating, or not eating it, but would sub-consciously have multiple thoughts such as maybe building a blaster gun, or jumping out the nearby window while stabbing yourself with a butter knife 7 times. The possibilities are endless.