I agree. Our concept of free will is very much a result of our culture. A Muslim will say 'what is written is written' and has a much more circumscribed view of free will than a Westerner. Ditto a Confucian. Dennett argues that the human sense of having free choice may have evolved, since people who feel they can do something to change their environment will act and survive, while the fatalists will lie down and die. This might also pertain to societies; is one of the reasons America has prospered whereas China spent long centuries in stasis and the Muslim world is in chaos, the fact that most Americans deeply believe they are in control of their destiny?
The key word in that sentence is "perceive". Everything we think we know is limited by our aspect in the "lofty structure of all that there is" (as Einstein called it.)
On the one hand, the materialist may say that something appears to be random or unpredictable - but on the other that "the mind is what the brain does" and all physicality abides by physical laws from the beginning over a timeline.
All of this is perception based on a 4D aspect with a single time dimension. IOW, the aspect itself is but a choice of coordinates.
Likewise, an observer can falsely perceive randomness in a deterministic system because of the aspect - as tortoise put it post 912: