I have written 4 books, 3 occult diaries, many pdfs and blog posts, and countless tweets and message board posts, and my credentials include 7 degrees, 6 of which are in STEM. I am very obviously the least appreciated genius of my time and can thus safely discard all opposition.
Stochasticity exists but does not resolve philosophical problems of determinism. Free will doesn't exist, but the human will does and it occupies causal space in the chain of causality in such a way that human decisions are still real and meaningful even if they aren't free.