This is the problem for those trying to defend free will, and moral responsibility. An agent that is divisible, that is an agent who has various components that follow rules and generate behavior, in the end is not responsible for its actions. This inner environment, these cogs in the machine, they are the causal roots of its behavior, no different in kind from external elements or causes."Their study showed that although injuries disrupting volition — the desire to act — can occur in many different locations, they fall within the same brain network. Injuries disrupting agency — the feeling of responsibility for carrying out those actions — also can occur in many different locations, but they fall within a separate network. "
True Free will requires an indivisible agent external to the causal chain of the world, but such a being may not make sense.
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