Quote Originally Posted by Oberon View Post
Easy, you stop asking yourself the question of whether the particles that blew into existence at the Big Bang caused your thoughts, and realise that you really are ​causing your own thoughts. I mean, I find this whole distinction to be a strange semantic debate to me.
This really just pushes the question further, though: what am I? What is the thing caused my own thoughts?

Quote Originally Posted by Oberon View Post
And if we're going to take the causality closer to present and say that the neurons in your head caused your thoughts, well that's an easier one. There's no difference between the neurons in your head and you. Saying you don't have free will because the neurons in your head fired a certain way and you have no control over it merely proves we do not have infinite free will, only a limited amount, but that's alright.
How are neurons causing things in my head deterministic? If it's really just neurons causing thoughts, then I don't control this, so I don't have free will, right?