Why we think we have free will argument

If conscious people have free will or not has been argued for many years. Some people think that we have free will and some people do not think that we have free will. It appears that we take in information from our environment and make decisions given the knowledge we already have learned. The better decisions we make the more likely we are to survive and reproduce. Clearly there are better and worse actions for survival and reproduction. At each moment conscious beings see a range of actions that they can make. sometimes these actions happen with no conscious thought, and at other times there is a mental analysis of the consequences of the considered actions and an analysis of what would produce the best or at least better results. The question is however can the thought process alone ever exceed the physical process of the bodies functioning? In other words, given the exact same physical conditions durning the whole though and resulting action process could you have done something else? The answer in no. Under the exact same physical conditions you will always produce the same behavior or actions. Since actions are physical, for there to be a different action there has to be a physical difference, but since by definition there is no physical difference there will not be a difference in actions. Very small changes in the brain structure but with the same identical environmental conditions can avalanche into big differences in the functioning of the brain and thus big difference in actions of the body. Or on the other hand the same brain structure and a very slight difference in the environmental conditions could also avalanche into a different behavior or action of the body. For example, one person is thinking about killing another person and then does kill this person. If there is no free will then under the same conditions of the body and environment the same actions will always occur --- the person is killed. If we change the external conditions but not the internal structure and functioning of the brain and body to seeing a gun pointed at yourself with an understanding that you will be shot if you kill this person, there can be very different actions produced because of different physical functioning in the brain. If under this scenario the person is not killed then under all the exact same physical conditions the person will not be killed.

Processing is occurring in the brain and the brain is aware of this processing (in the form of thinking) with further processing of neurons that are about the first processing or decision making. The brain by observing the processing of the brain or the decision making process sees free will in process. We believe that we have free will because we consciously see ourselves making decisions. Under identical conditions we will see the same mental processes occurring and thus think that we have free will over and over again.