I think the second article, and the idea that bacteria could think for you, is basically silly. It's not consistent with brain science, which is what my education is in.

You need to catch up on reading then

https://www.livescience.com/49373-google-hangout-on-brain-and-microbiome.html

If our positions were reversed, I would already be changing my mind, because your arguments are not logically consistent with themselves and established fact.

i actually brought you two scientific articles which you can link to research and you comfortably dismissed. if your neurotransmitters and gut bacteria can control your decisions before you make them then you are fucked. The fact that you sometimes consciously refuse to do so doesn't cut it. It is the exception rather than the rule. Most of the times your gut bacteria changes your for months, even years and you just happen to fall within a specific spectrum of behavior.

We demonstrably have free-will. This is like self-help, hippie book stuff.

Take a look around the crypto world. What is more popular here, math, or opinions?

We don't but you seem to be in denial for some reason