Free Will versus determinism:

     This ages old argument is partly fueled by a flawed concept of free
will.
     Someone imagines that one can freely make a choice.  Should I have
the blue sweater or the red sweater?  If there is no purpose behind the
choice, then it is a random choice.  What value do we place on random
choices.  Do you have a cense of choice when you make such trivial
choices?
     The sense of choice is strongest when the choice is most determined
by our needs.  Our choices are made in the context of a real world and
consequences desirable and undesirable of our choices.
     Free will, properly defined, is the ability to evaluate consequences
of our choices and to choose our present actions according to the future
we desire.  Our choices are determined by the idealized future.