No centralized resource is necessary for free will because sapience comes from uncertainty on the fundamental subatomic scale. Not only is this system non-deterministic, but furthermore trying to determine its functions and interactions anyway destroys the very information you’re looking for. Merely observing these processes on the level of their discrete stages terminates the process.

This is actually a old episode of The Twilight Zone. It was called “To Serve Man”. Aliens come, share their knowledge and technology. Prove themselves to be a close friend to humanity. Humans discover their alien book that is indecipherable with the exception of the title “To Serve Man”. This makes sense as they are so very helpful!

Aliens ask humans to come visit their planet of infinite miracles. Humans go and get reports back talking of endless wonders. No one ever returns, but that is expected, why would you want to come back to earth after seeing heaven?

The book is finally fully translated. It is a cookbook of how to cook humans.

The Simpsons also made an episode of this theme for the Treehouse of Terror S02E03 “Hungry are the Damned”. The Simpson family are kidnapped by the usual space alien duo Kang and Kodos with promises of glorious meals and a life of luxury on their planet.

Lisa finds a very dusty alien cookbook and after a reading the title (How to Cook Humans), assumes the aliens are only fattening them up to eat them. After some Simpson style hijinks the full title is revealed…

Clearing some dust off the cover… “How to Cook for Humans”

Blowing more dust off the cover… “How to Cook Forty Humans”

After one last cleaning… “How to Cook for Forty Humans”

The aliens take offense, their cook Serak the Preparer cries, and they ultimately kick the humans off their ship after a good scolding.

Boomers: eat the brown people first!

GenZ: does that mean I don’t have to pay rent any more?