I have been contemplating this question a lot and it seems to me that free will is definition wise unprovable. We have to in some way or another presuppose the existence of free will, will, or the soul to have free will in any way. To assume that our choices are temporally or spiritually more than just the output of our environment and surroundings/brain chemistry is a leap in logic and is assuming that there is something unique to us as a species. I think people find a lot of confusion with acceptance of this because there is a feeling associated with making decisions, they feel like they have causal links, and to be blunt, they do. But those causal and emotional responses could just be what we experience as choice but doesn’t go anywhere with the prescription of free will and just asserts that we do causally change things and we feel that we make decisions. And I think in our modern society we already see at least portions of our free will vanish into thin air; market manipulation, ads, algorithms, AIs being able to predict what our weaknesses are and then feeding us those weaknesses show us that our free choice is not free and can be bought and altered constantly. I think an examination of echo chambers would really put this on display, to where individuals have completely invented within these chambers an enemy that is the embodiment of propaganda which they fail to realize is propaganda. They dehumanize and strip away the reality of the situations and are unable to be swayed because the echo chambers have produced so much fear and hate for their enemies that their brains cannot rid themselves of that connotation.
