I think number 2 makes the most sense. I think people get hung up about the issue of free will. But what is it? Our decisions are made in thought-processes which are chemical (or electrical, I'm not a neuroscientist) reactions which occur within the brain and are governed by the laws of nature and causality just like everything else. Thought exists in the same way a nuclear reaction or bioluminescence exists. That is to say that free will (or whatever you want to call it) is bound up in the physical world, and does not exist seperately.
I really don't mean to sound dogmatic in any way, I've just yet to see how it could be otherwise.
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