Agreed. I would be no more assured that I had free will if you convinced me that there's a truly random factor in my decision making. It seems kind of paradoxi

Agreed. I would be no more assured that I had free will if you convinced me that there's a truly random factor in my decision making. It seems kind of paradoxical. Either the universe is completely deterministic, in which case my decisions are already set in stone; or there's a truly random element, in which case my decisions might be probabilistic. Neither of these feels like free will. I'm inclined to think of free will as a concept that is only meaningful in the context of higher-order abstractions. It's a facet of our internal monologue and interactions with other people. Asking whether humans fundamentally have free will seems like asking whether computers fundamentally have cursors.