AB,
As I have said, the only way to overcome the uncontrollable dictates of physical cause and effect is to induce an event which is defined from the non physical - ie the spiritual will of the conscious human soul.
But then of course that “the only way to overcome” gives the game away entirely. You really, really want “free” to mean “free of anything, including cause and effect” regardless of the incoherence that requires. And that piece of wishful thinking drives everything else – including the logical car crash of the conjecture “soul” that’s somehow a bit deterministic and somehow not deterministic because it’s like, you know,
magic innit.
Nothing at all to do with random.
Everything “to do with random”. If not deterministic, then random: the choice is binary because anything else is incoherent.
An illusion of free will is not a form of freedom. It is an illusion of freedom.
Which is still a form of freedom. The prisoner who isn’t aware of the prison walls is, according to his own lights, free. That’s what “a form of” means. Only if you have a helicopter view and can see the walls will you know that he has a false perception of that so, from your point of view, his perception is illusory. So it is with cause and effect – for the most part we’re dimly aware of our deterministic universe but we carry on as if the “free” of “free will” means your nonsensical version of that term.