Aren't we just saying that matter is complex enough to form an input to a model of the world and self which results in a really complex feedback loop where organisms which adjusted actions to increasingly complex projected model state had more descendants?
The self is just the only part of the model directly wired to our neurons and self awareness is just correct labeling.
In that context will is certainly a function of a how much a things internal model of self encoding the idea that its actions are moreso based on its own model than the tgings its model is built with and ability to make this distinction right or wrong and free will is basically meaningless.
Its certainly not a magical out for determinism all the qualities that we imbue with such meaning are as based on the same principals as anything else.
The self is just the only part of the model directly wired to our neurons and self awareness is just correct labeling.
In that context will is certainly a function of a how much a things internal model of self encoding the idea that its actions are moreso based on its own model than the tgings its model is built with and ability to make this distinction right or wrong and free will is basically meaningless.
Its certainly not a magical out for determinism all the qualities that we imbue with such meaning are as based on the same principals as anything else.