I like to believe I make choices and exercise a moral responsibility for those choices. That’s just what I like to believe. I don’t know if it is true. I don’t know how different philosophers in history have treated that question. I bet they don’t agree.
I have free will in my mind sometimes. On the outside world it’ another story however. I’m free to choose multiple paths, all with obstacles and blockages. Not work is not an option, not studying is not an option for me. Ah well…
There is no free will. Free from what? Free from conditioning and natural predispositions? What would that look like, there’s some “little you” inside your brain making the decisions? We are a really complex Rube Goldberg machine, reflex on top of a reflex on top of a reflex. There is no “you” to have free will anyways, everything you do is unconscious and “you” witness what your brain does. I would defer to neuroscientists in this matter.