There seems to be a common misunderstanding of what having free will means. For example, someone here put forward the idea that if I know you well enough to know what restaurant you will choose, you must therefore not have free will. But free will doesn't mean that genetic or environmental factors don't play a huge role in who you are, and therefore what choices you will make, and it certainly doesn't mean making completely random decisions based on nothing (which would mean you are much more of a nonentity than a creature without free will). It simply means that, in contrast to an animal which is driven entirely by its instinct or a computer which only can do what its programming tells it to, a human is a higher form of being with a mind that enables him to introspective and contemplate his actions before taking them - and in so doing, he can overcome his environmental influences by actually reprogramming his own mechanistic brain.
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