The question of free will has been long-debated in philosophy, but do we have an adequate answer? Is it even a real question?
A killer article in the Atlantic, written by a psychologist, about the nature of free will - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/03/the-war-on-reason/357561/
David Hume’s “Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding,” which contains a great bit about how all debate about “free will” up to that point has mostly been word games (see section 8) - http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/pdfs/hume1748_2.pdf
A really cool neural map of the brain, just recently released - http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/02/health/brain-maps/index.html?eref=edition
A thorough analysis of the very long, very snarky debate between Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther about the paradox between the omniescence of the Christian God and the supposed gift of free will to mankind - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1550381/posts
A paper detailing the emergent behavior witnessed in “swarm robotics,” a complicated self-assembling collective of robots, none of which are explicitly programmed for a task, figuring out together how to achieve a goal - http://www.researchgate.net/publication/37685001_Generation_of_desired_emergent_behavior_in_swarm_of_micro-robots/file/9c96051820993117ae.pdf
An article from Nature magazine with an overview of several studies demonstrating that our decisions aren’t even as subject to our “will” as we imagine them to be - http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080411/full/news.2008.751.html
The most thorough overview of various thoughts on free will, including some which make some claim to dualism - http://www.iep.utm.edu/dualism/#H5