Buzzing with intelligence?

Ever since my undergraduate days at Imperial conducting experiments on the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster, we were taught that insects (and indeed most biological organisms) are nothing but biological automatia; robots incapable of freewill; albeit very sophisticated ones. I've always believed that animals simply respond to external stimuli, which their brains then process and send out the necessary response. However, an international study of fruitflies appears to show that they appear to 'make choices' - that they may be capable of exhibiting a primitive form of freewill; a precursor to the advanced freewill we humans enjoy. Contrary to what most people believe, we humans don't have 100% free will either. We too, like our cousins in the animal kingdom respond automatically to stimuli without conscious thought. Don't believe me? Next time you see a gorgeous girl and your heart skips a beat, when you see a little child and you start going all goo-goo-gaga, the process of falling in love...well now you know. Freewill? How much do we really have? Are we not the product of our past and genetics. Creatures of habit. Break free from the determinism that binds us i say; that clogs us; that siphons off our childish wonder for life and the world. Live for now. Live for today. Because when tomorrow comes, it may well be too late...