"We have free will, despite all the baggage of our upbringing, education, etc"

But that is one of the most disputed of the Philosophic conundrums. It is 'almost' unresolvable. (My partially done master's thesis was to have been on how it 'might' have been resolved.)

What is clear is that it 'feels' like we have free will, whether or not all these new DNA & chemical studies show that we are programmed in many ways. The criminal statutes are based on the idea the we have it....