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For free will to be a product of physiology, there must be a chemical reaction to initiate the thought or desire. What initiated this reaction?

Or a series of chemical interactions. Or a specific arrangement of brain matter plus those. Don't oversimplify this.

And if we don't know the answer, that doesn't mean it's impossible. Like I said, neither side has a demonstrable answer just yet, so there's no reason to discard physiology, which at least has the advantage of being readily apparent.

Either we run into the infinite regression paradox or free will is not generated by physiological functions.

Just because one thinks it is real, does not make it so.

How is infinite regression remotely connected to free will? And how is it even a problem? It's not like you've bothered demonstrating that infinity can't exist.

Material things are not just restricted to what they are composed of, else we'd never have machinery or electrical engineering.

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A car cannot fly. It is restricted to it's design. Your laptop cannot get up and dance, it is restricted to it's design. Etc..

Yes, but a pile of plastic and metal can't run a computer program, but my laptop can. According to your logic, my laptop is just a pile of plastic and metal, and therefore can only do the things that plastic and metal can do.

Unless... you accept that the arrangement of such matter can produce a different effect to the parts on their lonesome, in which case, what's your excuse for thinking the brain can't do that too?