Do we have free will?

An additional thought

The brain takes a long time to form completely. The wiring in a teenager's brain is only about 80 per cent completed (which may not come as a great surprise to the parents of teenagers). Although most of the growth of the brain occurs in the first two years and is 95 per cent finished by the age of ten, the synapses aren't fully wired until a young person is in his or her mid to late twenties. That means that the teenage years effectively extend well into adulthood. In the meantime, the person in question will almost certainly have more impulsive, less reflective behaviour than his elders, and will also be more susceptible to the effects of alcohol. 'The teenage brain is not just an adult brain with fewer miles on it, 'Frances E. Jensen, a neurology professor, told Harvard Magazine in 2008. It is, rather, a different kind of brain altogether.

This writer's opinion.

Is that we have limited or constrained free will. He bases this option on three thoughts:

1.His dog: he has written a book on his dog Dodger. published by Amazon in which he notes that dogs have loved us for thousands of years. The book has a photo of a Roman couple in bed with their dog. His theory is that some Neanderthal kid offered a wolf pup a feed, the pup decided to stay, and turned into our faithful friend: , Search on the web for "Why do dogs love us? Scientists believe that our friendship goes back 40,000 years. It is buried deep into their genes, passed on from generation to generation.

2. Then our behaviours are passed on from generation to generation, buried deep in our genes. So, if we evolved from some form of chimpanzee, that ancestry is tribal and we reflect what that tribal behaviour was like. It was survival of the fittest. The National Library has an article on it "The Law of Evolution: Darwin, Wallace, and the Survival of the Fittest". And how would tribes survive back then? By following the leader that promised the most, by taking the land that was the most productive, even though other tribes were there beforehand. In short, we have kept those genes buried deep within us. They are fuelling our conflicts today.

3, The world today is viewing many conflicts, the Israel Palestine war and Ukraine invasion being the most objectionable. Historians tell us that we, the world, has suffered war for most of our existence Do we want that? This writer has written another book Ending War also on Amazon that says we do not want wars, so why have we experienced them? It is in our genes.

So we do not have completely free will, I call it guided, limited or constrained, How to beat it is more research and perhaps another article.