It's the understood predictable nature of the stuff we're built out of - chemicals - that precludes free will. If animals were continually overriding the laws o

It's the understood predictable nature of the stuff we're built out of - chemicals - that precludes free will. If animals were continually overriding the laws of chemistry in their brains, then it'd have been seen in some rat's brain in the lab by now!! What those brain/psychological studies do prove is that our subjective experience is misleading. Our experience and internal narrative of what we're doing, and why, are really just after-the-fact rationalizations of what our brain+body are doing.