If there is free will then it's there in all the boring things and the boring places that do not have much significance. For example, you can wash your left hand first rather than the right hand, or vice versa. Otherwise there is no such thing as free will in things that really matter. Not a possibility even biologically.

In my opinion, this is an irrational question that is dividing two ideas that can't stand on their own. Do we drink oxygen or hydrogen? Actually, we drink water. Are we meat puppets or floating souls? Actually, we're humans. We're both determined and have free-will.

There's a ping-pong, back-and-forth kind of dialogue between the external world and your inner self. They both play off of one another. And the play is continuous, constant and oscillates ultra fast.

On the one hand, we are determined by our nature and nurture. It's funny when people pose nature and nurture against each other because they're essentially two different forms of determinism.

Biology, genetics, parents, parenting, and environment have a tremendous impact on you that is outside of your control. You're automatically directed into a certain kind of acting and thinking because you are who you are and you can't change that. You have an extremely limited range of options given your nature.

I do, however, believe that we have a little window of free-will that gives you the opportunity to act on some decisions within the entire range of actual possible decisions within your nature. This little window is determined (lol the irony), by how conscious you choose to be. You can choose to operate in the world with a metacognition, alertness, and big-picture view or you can suspend this awareness and go about life passively. Passivity is responding automatically like a robot getting their buttons pushed, or a zombie only motivated by petty brains.

It's like playing a video game. Your controller has only so many buttons, and you can only push them so fast, and certain button combinations can't be pushed at the same time. And sometimes buttons become useless or essential depending on which screen or section of the game you're on. And of course, you need to decide to even push these buttons, and pay enough attention to the screen to push the buttons at the "right" time.

Without determinism, it's like playing with the gaming console turned off. Without free-will, the game is on, but there's no one there to move the character.

You play the game with it actually turned on and you're paying attention to the screen.