Do you believe in free will?

[genkaus]

Premise 4 should then be stated as: The mind conceptualizes our existence within our models of reality

I'll try to address the physical reality first. It wouldn't be of any use in the true material world if we possessed free will inside of our models of reality. Now that that's been sorted, let's move on to how free will exists in our models of reality.

The model of reality is created by the mind by gathering perceptions received from the true material world (though we can never be sure how closely they resemble the true material world). This would mean that both the mind and the perceptions which it receives are external to the conceptualized world. Both being the creator of and being external from the model of reality would allow the mind the ability to control, or at least have influence on, the model of reality. This influence is referred to as free will and is what gives us reign over our conceptualized existence.

Essentially I view the issue as free will being 'truly' illusory, but since we live in a self conceived illusion (I know you won't like my wording of our concepts of reality) we're fine with accepting the influence of this additional illusion. To our conceptual existence free will is real, the same way the world as we perceive it is real. Outside of our created model of reality our free will is null and void, but we can never know what its like outside of our model of reality.

Fair enough. As your argument stands now, it seems okay. Now, the free will you have presented here, what would it be free from? I can see that it would be free from the model of reality insider your mind, but is it free from actual physical reality as well if we determine that your mind is completely determined by that physical reality?