Proof of nonexistence of free will

Does the ability to choose freely to sacrifice for anothers welfare over your own or the ability to recognize morality require free will?

When did the first information appear.

You answered your own question.

I doubt it.

and the answer is. . .

why

I guess that, like 0 is a number, even the absence of information is in itself an information.

It's a paradox!
if there is nothing nor no one to be informed of an absence the paradox resolves itself.
Full absence takes the "zero" away to...

You're now going into Philosophy 101.

Fortunately for us, there IS something, so nothingness is nothing to worry about...

...half right half wrong CI...
The remark is obvious but the point is not. I merely jumped into another topic that flies around in the Philosophy forums...to the question of why there is something rather than nothingness the obvious answer eludes "everybody"...Nothingness can't be absolute!
"Zero" like the silence between the notes of a music score that marks the rhythm can only exist in the context of something else. Zero is a draw between equal opposite forces, not an absolute absence.
For instance, the net result of energy in the Universe is zero but that does not entail there is no energy nor stuff everywhere.

As you pointed out there is no such thing as a full absence of information.
Like a shadow, being absent is still BEING there!

How can Philosophy 101 be half right and half wrong?

When the distinction between the remark and the point is not self-evident!
By the way do you know what the point was about paradoxes?

By the way, I was referring to you not to Philosophy 101 being half right half wrong...

Personally, I think of "agents" as operators...a smart calculator is still a calculator!

Calculators and computers are not yet self-conscious but when they become so, you will have a point.

I suppose another way to say this is: if there is matter, there is information, because it's impossible to conceive of matter without a form. Matter always assume some "shape" which in itself is information.

If I were a French philosopher instead of a Uyghur shepherd I would risk a pun: matter is always "in formation".

Matter is everything our senses can conceive.