Free will is an illusion

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Free will is an illusion". Your opponent's style: Sam Harris

Free will being an illustion compeletly downgrades human emotion, if we can have own expiriances, not meaning that two humans are never exactly alive, but emaning humans can feel things that know one in there immadet circle is feeling, than they can feel things strong enough to make their own, rach, illogical choices

The profound depth of human emotion, and even the "rash, illogical choices" it inspires, doesn't suddenly conjure a metaphysical free will from thin air. Your feelings, thoughts, and intentions simply arise in consciousness, born of a biological and environmental tapestry you didn't author. You don't choose your desires or fears; they are felt. If your choices are merely the read-out of these unchosen states, where exactly does this self-starting agency reside?

A human is not born completely with their own set of emotional prossessing tools, they are given to them by their parents or garideans

The fact that we are shaped by our upbringing and environmental factors isn't a refutation of free will; it's a description of how we become who we are. Our capacity to *reflect* on those inherited patterns, to *choose* to reinforce or reject them, to *learn* and *adapt* beyond our initial conditioning—that's precisely where agency emerges. Being influenced isn't the same as being determined, otherwise no one would ever transcend their origins.

you saying people do infact transend their origins is proof that they can and do have free will

"Transcendence" is merely a description of a *change* in behavior or perspective, not proof of uncaused causation. Your desire to overcome your origins, your capacity for self-reflection, even the sudden insight that sparks a new path—these are all *events* arising in consciousness, products of your genes, environment, and prior experiences. You don't choose to choose to transcend; the impulse itself arises from a deterministic chain. Where's the freedom if the will to transcend is itself unchosen?