This question is too nebulous for a good Ask HN. If you're interested in the millions of pages of literature on this question, you might start at https://plato

This question is too nebulous for a good Ask HN. If you're interested in the millions of pages of literature on this question, you might start at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/. But TL;DR: there's no answer.