[Lerc]

A lot of people look towards non-determanism to be a source for free will. It's often what underlies peoples thinking when they discount the ability of AI to be conscious. They want to believe they have free will and consider determinism to be incompatible with free will.

Events are either caused, or uncaused. Either can be causes. Caused events happen because of the cause. Uncaused events are by definition random. If you can detect any real pattern in an event you can infer that it was caused by something.

Relying on decision making by randomness over reasons does not seem to be a good basis of free will.

If we have free will it will be in spite of non-determinism, not because of it.