Free will… the notion of making choices unencumbered by external factors. This is a very, very, very simple definition. I’d rather not get into all the “-isms” that go along with the concept of free will. I’m not a career philosopher, I just play one on the internet.
The words balloons in the cartoon pretty much negate each other. I can’t have free will if my body is still on the shelf. Unless that is what I’ve chosen… blah, blah, blah. The discussion can go on forever… and it pretty much has.
You choose what you choose because you choose it. Is that choice determined by anything external? Most likely yes. Deal with it…if I have to, you have to.
