skywrath32
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You seem very confused.
Free will is the ability to choose otherwise. Now let's take the only two options available: your decision is lawful or it is random. If your decision is lawful, there is no ability to choose otherwise, because it happens according to laws, much like a computer. If your decision is random, then "you" had no control over the decision anymore than a random number generator "chooses" its result.
You are saying that free will requires no outside force, which would imply that you are talking about the second option of randomness. Otherwise it does require an outside force: computers need inputs in order to create outputs.
Free will, as a concept, is nonsensical.
Yes you are influenced but at the end, You are the one to decide and in my opinion that is the real FREE WILL. If you put yourself inside a white room with no person or anything to influence you but your necessities are there, Now when your hungry.. You will decide will you eat or not? Most of us will choose to eat while some will not for no reasons at all. Why? because of our free will to do so. now probably youll say its just randomness but it was us who decided to do a random thing.