On Free Will

I have an issue with the concept of free will because for free will to exist it would require that information could be created out of nothing. My position might be counter-intuitive at first, but think about it:

Scenario #1: There is no free will and information cannot be created, just derived from previously existing knowledge. We are born with biological biases and within an environment that is not under our control. The environment will dictate what experiences we will have and what knowledge we will acquire while our biological biases will determine how we will derive new information from it. Information is derived and then re-derived and through recursion, we begin to exhibit complex emergent behavior that appears to be unpredictable.

Scenario #2: There is free will and ‘somehow’ we make information available to our mental faculties that is not sourced on pre-existing knowledge. The world stops making sense and we begin creating incredible explanations for the phenomenon – i.e. soul, spirit, fairies.

Do I even need bring up Occam’s razor on this one?

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