Whatever people mean by free will, this feeling like we're driving our bodies and minds around usually, there's no mechanism by which it could exist. Either th

Whatever people mean by free will, this feeling like we're driving our bodies and minds around usually, there's no mechanism by which it could exist. Either the things in our brains follow deterministic patterns or they're random. Neither one of those gives me room to decide to get a glass of orange juice. In fact, any desire I have at all for an orange is dependent on that type of plant having emerged billions of years ago. I can imagine a fruit that doesn't exist, but I can't desire it and I can't buy it at the store. I had no say in any part of that causal chain whatsoever.