Free will defines the role we play in our lives. Whether we have it or not, perhaps it is the key to connecting our world to forces and dimensions beyond what we can see. But if we really had free will, that might leave us a solitary species. A scary thought in the 46 billion light year realm of the universe where we are left to make choices on our tiny speck of dirty planet. Defined by Timothy O'Conner in the Stanford Encyclopedia, free will is "a philosophical term of art for a particular sort of capacity of rational agents to choose a course of action among various alternatives." O'Conner suggests that freedom of will is associated with rationality. From this the question becomes: where does rationality originate? Does the author, whoever or whatever he is, possess the ability to choose based on his own judgment which, according to the dictionary, is “the ability to make decisions ponder or come to a conclusion chosen according to wisdom.” We can elaborate further by defining the term wisdom as “the quality of having experience, knowledge and good judgment.” This idea that wisdom, which defines judgment, is based on the experience of a being helps support compatibilism. The most inclusive perspective on free will, compatibilism, combines ideas of determinism and free will, arguing that although we have freedom of will and choice, our past experiences define our judgment and therefore our will. (McKenna) Determinists who disagree with the first part, free will, in compatibilism, agree with the next statement that experiences play a determining role in our will. In his book “Between Chance and Choice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Determinism” author Robert Bishop states the principle of determinism… in the middle of the paper… you choose to change one part of that chain. Introduce an indeterminate event, whereby the determinate course will shift, creating another determinate course that includes the indeterminate act. Maybe we should be afraid, we and the life closest to us are the only things that I believe have developed a sense of free will. We are all alone with the dogs, dolphins and insects, left to make choices for change in the deterministic universe. Deterministic events have advanced for so long and have created indeterministic events and the free will that we have. The origin of our freedom, if we have any, remains a perplexing question, the answers extending from God to the flesh computers that reside in our heads. Whatever it is, I believe there is an answer and maybe one day I will know if I wrote this of my own volition or if I was destined and trained to write these words my whole life.