I appreciate everyone's comments and views. I wish it was 5pm and we were all sitting around a table talking about this. Unfortunately I'm gonna need to hit the hay for now but look forward to conversing later.

I really appreciate this response khaled. I'm gonna have to think over what you said and also try and find this paper you speak of. I'm not sure I agree yet but that's kind of the point of philosophical debates lol. You have given me a better answer than anyone else I've ever spoken with about it.

My names Dan and I hope we can speak more in the future.

I guess I think that my mind created this question to ask because of something else that happened before to make me wonder.

I'm really not trying to be contradictory I swear. I'm just troubled by this thought and wanted to see if other people had some insight that seemed satisfactory. I really do appreciate the conversation so much!

I'm not sure I understand the point of the question you asked at the end of your post but I don't think I would be anymore free than I was before they took the doors off. I might be missing something though so I'm sorry if I am sounding ignorant.

As for your other statement is it possible that quantum mechanics are only seemingly random because of our own ignorance about how things work?

Ok :) Why?

I not sure how I missed this comment since it was the first lol. I'm not intending to get into any kind of religious or spiritual argument. Mine is more of my observance of the universe as I understand it. Based on cause and effect which makes me think that we don't have free will in that context. That's why I wanted to make sure I didn't want an outside influence to sway the discussion. Thank you for responding.

I am not defending scientists who as you say might be awarding themselves Nobel Prizes. I'm just looking at simple scientific method that dates back long before the invention of the Nobel Prize. I am trying to make a choice. My question is, is that choice really mine.

I accept that to my limited understanding of physics and in relation to my own outlook it is random but that doesn't mean it is, does it? I mean there was a reason, whether the way the dice came out of the hand or the way it bounced because of the type of wood or amount of force, that it came up 3. I feel like that's just fact. Not to mention why did the person roll the dice to begin with.

I suppose my terms are that no decision is random ergo, no decision is truly free because it is the direct consequence of something that happened before.
This is fundamentally what I can't disprove. I hope that makes sense.

Thank you for the response but I guess that answer is less than fulfilling for me personally. From everything I've seen and been taught, our universe is that of cause and effect. That means that every decision(or effect) is the result of something before it(the cause). If that's true everything has been decided. It's unsettling which is why I posit the question to this forum.

I wish to see a compelling argument that makes thinking of free will as a possibility without the use of some outside power.