@Fil Albuquerque,
Yes it does negate the concept of will in the classic sense but not the concept of agency, understood as the capacity to make informed choices that one can "own", i.e. identify with.
Assume the following hypotheses:
A universe exists.
It includes patterns, structures that work in certain ways, and the likes. A certain "inherent logic".
One of these patterns is life: the capacity to keep a "form" and multiply it against the forces of entropy, and create through evolution more and more complex forms.
Life includes animals, understood as lifeforms that can move rapidly from place to place.
This capacity is only advantageous if animals move in directions of useful reseources (eg food).
Therefore they need to KNOW where they're going. Hence neurons.
From information management to self-awareness is a mere one little step, probably done way before human beings.
Hence a universe can produce its own mirror, in a sense: an observer, a subject therefore.
