Free Will

[kahljorn]

The fact you post in this thread is merely because the thread was created. There is no "Free Will" in that, albeit you chose to post in the thread. Without this thread you would've never been able to post here, with it you have. Thusly, your freewil right there has been effectively cut in half, that's 50%.
Now, the kind of responses you can generate are marginally effected by I would say five percent, because other's may have posted similar things. In retrospect, what you have posted may have been altered by means of establishment, i.e., someone else posted something and gave you an idea.
Thusly, the forms of responses you could have conjued is now at 55%, give or take depending forms of interaction. in my case I would probably be at about 70% with my lack of freewill, because I generally talk out of my ass.
Then it gets taken to what you call "Genetic" yada yada. Genetics has a very small effect on what you can and cannot do(except like, walking, talking, etc., it essentially sets the stage for the broad limits, but does nothing to the details). If genetics was everything your brother would be the exact same occupation as you and have the same ideals and religion. The largest effect is, of course, other people. When you were six people at school pointed and laughed at you because you picked your nose, you no longer picked your nose because they laughed at you. Three years from now you may tell a small child not to pick his nose, and so "Free Will" is spread.
You have to realize, the single interaction between you and another is actually infinite reactions, because the person before you was influenced by a multitude of things, thusly shaping the person they are and the type of response they would deliver. IN fact, the very essence of their purpose of being in the same room to respond with you in the first place follows the same regard as their Response, it is effected by the way they have lived, and what they have encountered.
So essentially, the infinite possibilities of Free-Will are truly just the infinite Interactions that have occured before you. Knowing today you could donate to the poor and somehow give rise to the new Saddam, as per chaos theory. Complicated strings of events brought about by interaction and the "Freedom" of will.

Also, on the whole "God makes us do it" section of our programee, the idea that "God" is all of us must come into effect. In fact, the basis of the assumptions about God is laid out quite plainly, "Omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient". Ergo, as being small subsidiary corporations of God himself, our will is actually his; as per the oneness(all life being interconnected with the universe yada yada) would seem to complicate, it really comes down to being the actual answer.
"We are something the whole universe is doing at the place you call the here and now, just as a wave is what the entire ocean is doing"