The only way your choices can be non-deterministic is when there is no cause for why you chose x over y. A lack of cause means that the choice was random; there was no reason why you chose x over y. But that’s not what people generally mean by free will: they want their choices to have been made for a reason (even if the reason is just “personal preference” or “I felt like it”). Reasons mean causes, so we are back to the choices being determined by those causes.
Even when one claims “I chose x over y because I felt like it”, there will be reasons why they felt like it. There is always a next “why” to ask, unless you put it down to pure randomness.
I don’t see how you can escape this. There are either causes, aka determination, or pure randomness, or a mix of both. Neither gives you free will in the naive or metaphysical-libertarianism sense. (Which is also why the probabilisticity of quantum mechanics doesn’t offer a way out.)
This isn’t specific to materialism, it’s a matter of logic.
It’s worth reading Shopenhauer on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Freedom_of_the_Will. “Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.”
Even when one claims “I chose x over y because I felt like it”, there will be reasons why they felt like it. There is always a next “why” to ask, unless you put it down to pure randomness.
I don’t see how you can escape this. There are either causes, aka determination, or pure randomness, or a mix of both. Neither gives you free will in the naive or metaphysical-libertarianism sense. (Which is also why the probabilisticity of quantum mechanics doesn’t offer a way out.)
This isn’t specific to materialism, it’s a matter of logic.
It’s worth reading Shopenhauer on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Freedom_of_the_Will. “Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.”