it's not your choice that shapes that ship, that captain, and that decision in the "present moment," but your genetic makeup and the environmental data loaded onto it. And that "moment of now" is not some clean break from what came before the execution itself is shaped by the same biology and everything that has been poured into it since birth. Coercion doesn't have to come from the outside; it can come from within. The Jim Twins made the same decisions without ever knowing each other or being guided by anyone. Who was the captain?
as for training the mind martial artists, musicians, soldiers yes, the mind can be trained. But that training happens within the limits your genetic makeup allows. Not everyone who trains the same way gets to the same place because the range of what's possible was never equal to begin with. Deliberate practice doesn't prove free will; it only shows how much of what was already there can actually surface.
the quantum and holographic brain part these models are still speculative and not accepted in the mainstream of neuroscience. To link uncertainty to free will is to confuse randomness with freedom. If we don't know how the die will fall, i don't think that means the die has "free will.
as for training the mind martial artists, musicians, soldiers yes, the mind can be trained. But that training happens within the limits your genetic makeup allows. Not everyone who trains the same way gets to the same place because the range of what's possible was never equal to begin with. Deliberate practice doesn't prove free will; it only shows how much of what was already there can actually surface.
the quantum and holographic brain part these models are still speculative and not accepted in the mainstream of neuroscience. To link uncertainty to free will is to confuse randomness with freedom. If we don't know how the die will fall, i don't think that means the die has "free will.