What was the particle flow that left you with such a limiting outlook on life? My framework for approaching the world gives me many more possibilities, choices and options. Even if there was no free will, simply seeing these possibilities means that I could take one of them. Have you ever just had a craving pop in your head and you search endlessly through the grocery store only to decide to eat something you've never tasted before? I have. I did it a few days ago with some orange flavored chocolate. How did that day's stimulus differ from the time previous when I maybe settled on something healthier? Even if it is a set of processes in my head which dictated what I did, I can influence those processes. I can set out to change my tastes. When I needed to diet, I realized what it was that my mind was doing when I would over-eat. I would always be tasting food, trying to think about what I would enjoy eating. Now I realize that I need to check my stomach to see if it's full, if not I'm not hungry. I took it upon myself to restructure my world and I went about and did it. That means my brain decide it wasn't operating appropriately and it took it upon itself to alter its own structure to suit my arbitrary list of needs.

That's an example of free will but I'll try to take it as a description of one of those evolutionary "processes" which provide that illusion of me being in control. But I want to believe that I possess free will, because by those same evolutionary processes, I believe it more to be more valuable. If I trust my brain to always do what's best for me, then allowing it to explore every avenue with the belief that it has complete control means that my brain is more likely to make decisions which will be better for me. If I believe the mind has no free will, then it has no real power at all and therefore will always follow the path of least resistance. And though it may do it many times, it does not do it every time. So therefore, as far as I care, I have free will. Ha, that's cool. Even trying to reason that I have no free-will reasons itself back to having free will. I've got a dynamically stable mind towards the idea of free will.

I'm also very tired. But this was fun.