[csmdev]

There is no free will. You can do what you will, but you cannot will what you will. It all comes automatically and you blindly follow it without any real control.

And if we think of the universe as a whole, your subjective perspective is like a worker thread in a computer program. You start with some specific parameters and evolve based on them. And at the same time there are multiple threads doing the same thing, but they have different parameters and a different evolution.

Your will boils down to simple programming. You make decisions based on your anatomy and life experience. Input parameters and program evolution (if/else mostly). When you're hungry your brain already decided if it needs glucose, protein or something else. Your will allows you only to satisfy the hunger or not. And that decision is made based on past experiences. What you ate and liked, what you didn't like, the fact that you decided at some point to lose weight, or to gain weight. A simple decision to eat a hamburger is powered by your entire life so far.

But if you really want something interesting to think about and you're a true hacker, look at the universe as a whole. At any point inside it matter either exists or it doesn't. Do you know any other binary-based ecosystem which contains different arrangements of data that evolve in time and space?