If it helps you understand me better, John:
I am agnostic.
I see "belief" as a cognitive process, not a religious one.
And while many of our systems and cognitive processes are, more
or less, very sophisticated machines, nevertheless, a form of
free will is present, at least in my belief system.
MUCH of what we think of as free will *is* an illusion.
But until some evidence tells me that apwr20385hapowea oad is a
precisely predictable response based upon past inputs, I have
choice.