Unless I missed it noone said anything about generics, upbringing or mental issues. And it certainly wasn't what I had in mind.
What I had in mind was physics, and its seemingly entirely deterministic nature at classical scales.
You may perceive a choice. But every choice is influenced by the environment and a chain of cause and effect deterministically traceable forward and backwards if only you could have a full picture of events.
It just seems random because of the chaotic nature of the system. But a chaotic system is still a predetermined one. With the initial starting conditions predetermining everything for the systems entire lifespan.
That's what I think of when I think of a determined universe.
That does explain why you're inclined to do something, and why with a certain background the probability that you will do X, Y and/or Z is high, yes. But that doesn't mean there is no choice, there's always a choice.
Saying there's no choice means saying that you're powerless
Actually there's evidence for it. Look up the libet experiment(s) (there are 3 of them IIRC), they're not flawless but still provide important insight. Also a well presented argument against free will does make a lot of sense logically.
But let's not go off topic ^^
I absolutely know and believe where you two are coming from.
But this is no evidence (not even close) of there being no free will.
I mean, it is, 100%, if you say that your subconsciousness is not you.
Then, yes, 100% we're all a slave to our subconscious mind
but ofc that's also us, and it only triggers involuntarily if we're in danger or stress
The experiment is very interesting and shows just how fast of a computer we really are,
we're so fast we're calculating the future non-stop. There's many experiments that show that we're about .2 seconds in the future at all times, all just a projection of our minds, but that doesn't take our free mind away.
It's more of a failsafe for actual physical danger, and giving us room to think and calculate, which has been our survival strategy in the wild
In a dangerous situation I'm sure the subconscious self would take over, that's just how it goes,
but other than that, we have pretty much free will to do anything we want.
You
can slap your neighbour with a pancake, and nobody can tell you that was some intricate plan masterminded by your subconsciousness, because it's fucking moronic.