Whether you like it or not there is no such thing as free will. It doesn't make sense for it to exist and makes for a fairly egocentric view of the universe. To think that there is an entirely new universe created simply because YOU made a choice to have apples instead of oranges is absurd. Now I'm sure that proponents of free will would say "well it's not just me" because they think an entirely new universe is made every time anyone or anything makes a choice but this is equally silly. It doesn't take causal factors into account at all. The only reason you think the things that you do is because you have been caused to think them. If you didn't know that a fence was electric you might touch it, but if you did know it was electric you would be far less likely to touch it. You couldn't automatically know "this fence is electric" without reading any signs, observing someone get shocked or being told that it was electric. There would be no reason to know.
Free will is ultimately mathematically unsound. If 1 and 3 are causal factors then the result will always be 4. If you believe in free will however that's saying that 1 + 3 can equal ANYTHING because there's this mysterious thing called "choice" involved and that "choice" is irrelevant to causal factors. If there were really such a thing as free will then you could start speaking Russian with no exposure to it. You would be able to do something regardless of causality. Everything is caused to be the way that it is and there is no other way.
To think that you have free will is as silly as a molecule in baking soda being mixed with vinegar "deciding" that it's going to fizz. We're nothing more than a giant chemical reaction reacting in a predictable manner.
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