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If you frame free will from the perspective of acting independently of prior experience, I'll agree with you that it's incredibly difficult or even impossible to act out pure free will. If we think of life's choices as an incredibly complicated tree, where ever time we branch out going forward in a way we can't easily go back, indeed, free will is quite limited from the perspective of the moment of time in which we exist.
At the same time, we made a significant portion of those choices to bring us to the current moment and thus must accept that we chose past experiences and chose who've become. In that sense, you have also chosen to interact with the ideas you've interacted with and how you interpreted that information. That reflects your free will to do so at least on some level, even if that's clearly limited by the time in history and the physical place where you're making choices.
I think it's worth examining how our own free will determines our identity, especially given that this is the part of it that we can control.
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