The problems with/about free will have more to do with people's emotions than anything else. For some reason people just can't accept determinism; possibly bec

The problems with/about free will have more to do with people's emotions than anything else. For some reason people just can't accept determinism; possibly because it often seems to lead to a belief in nihilism and that is judged (perhaps rightfully so) to be destructive/dysfunctional. On the other hand the only way free will makes sense if it's a property of all the universe and thus essentially is just the phenomenological experience of the passage of time. Since we conflate free will and consciousness that would mean people would have to accept that there's nothing special about human consciousness and that your dog is also conscious and that even your table must then in some be 'at least a little-bit' conscious. And that is something we also categorically seem to refuse to accept. Either way I'd say determinism and universal consciousness are just different sides of the same coin and our opposition to them says more about our adherence to religious concepts and insistence about humanity's 'special status' in the universe than anything else.