you're still assuming the conclusion that complex brain function "just is" agency without explaining how true agency arises from pure physical processes (which you have admitted are random fundamentally) using your naturalistic worldview. this is ad hoc.
if consciousness and decision-making are merely the result of physical processes then they aren't free in any meaningful sense. there’s no space for a true agent to make real choices. when you say 'you can make decisions,' in your framework, all you’re describing is a brain responding to physical stimuli, not an independent agent exercising agency.
the important part you need to address is how free will can exist within a naturalistic worldview. if everything is random events, the consciousness itself would fundamentally be cause and effect of random events and there would never actually be true choice or agency.
Oh I didnt even see that reply.
Well there is no real self in the way you wanna imply it. Our self is a very useful illusion of the brain if you will, a necessary tool to make decisions. The Self dies with the machine so to say. Consciousness is an example of emergence.
Individual neurons in the brain aren't conscious on their own. But when billions of them interact in a highly organized way, something entirely new appears — the experience of being conscious. That consciousness is an emergent property of the neural system.
I can see why you'd doubt it from your point of view, but we all, including me and you, just arent all-knowing and therefor have to accept certain knowledge barriers.
The thing that is clear however is that the concept of god, at least that of the christian god, doesnt hold up.
All happens according to gods will, which is very obvious and selfexplanatory because god cannot be surprised or tricked because he is all-knowing, all-powerful and also acts outside of any time frames because he created everything including time itself. This means every commited sin by any human ever, now or in the future, happens because its god's will. Everything happens as he intended, which ridicules the whole message and the whole concept of the bible.
Its incredibly cheap to claim that god gave humans free will to decide for themselves how they would behave if everything can only happen the way he wants it to happen - which is irrefutable.
A moral compass given to us by god is also completely ridiculous because millions of people ignore that compass every single day (by gods will by the way, he knows it happens and he also wants it to happen). If millions ignore god's moral compass day by day then god's moral compass would be highly dysfunctional.
An all-powerful being that implants a moral compass must be judged by the outcome.
You can twist and turn it all upside down and sideways, but the biblical christian god will always end up being completely nonsensical, no matter how you wanna argue.