"Thus if you chase the causal chain far back enough in time, you see there's always an external root cause for an action." I'm not sure I agree 100%, but I agr

"Thus if you chase the causal chain far back enough in time, you see there's always an external root cause for an action." I'm not sure I agree 100%, but I agree at least 99%. I believe humans have the possibility of free will. But it in practice it's very rare and most of the time is exactly what you state. See G.I. Gurdjieff for more on this. Probable crank, conman, and (I believe) probably correct on at least this point. He states (rather his pupil Ouspensky states from his teachings), that we have the potential to develop free will, but it is not a native attribute, and most of the time we simply respond to stimuli and conditioning. I tend to agree.