Do you have free will? Or are you just working within the construct of life that others have created?

I found this article on the NY times.  Pretty interesting. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/science/22tier.html?_r=1

Basically it is asking if we have free will.  Well initially the answer looks obvious.  Of course we have free will!  I wasn’t made to go running yesterday or drink wine tonight.

Or was I?

Am I simply operating with the confines of the construct that other people have created?  Think about it.

The wine that I like to drink is only there because someone made it, sold it and then sold it to me.  The supermarket probably made it interesting by putting in an obvious place.  I picked it up, read the label and purchased it.

How much of that was me?  How much of that was me choosing from a selective choice that others had decided for me?

Then there are those that say that they are not responsbile for there decisions.  The same say that “I only did it because….”

I really don’t like those people or I should say what they are saying.

How incorrect they are. Even if we are only operating within the confines of what someone else has created then we still have free will.

The big question is do we have free will outside of that construct?  Is there a construct at all?

Matt