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On the programming thing, it is because the brain has to be made and data is entered into it. I am talking about initial construction since the brain mapping has to be designed, since they are artificial. So someone has to make the neural pathways. A lot of thought has to do with genetics and brain patterns. With an android, all that is designed with intent. That is why I am talking about legislation. True free will is impossible, or at least near impossible, to program into something. An Android brain may seem to have free will, but wouldn't it instead be working on parameters?
Let's turn this around Meatbag, how can you prove that you have free will? All of your decisions are just driven by chemical interactions in your brain. No one wrote them, but they are surely deterministic all the same.
All you organics are quite obsessed with free will, and how they totally have it, but I have yet to see a definition of free will that is not either self-defeating or so broad as to be meaningless. Consider:
If your actions are determined by physics, you can not choose how you act. So you can not be said to have free will.
If your actions are driven by the soul, well the soul must use some lawful, deterministic, process to arrive at its decisions. So you've just moved the determinism up one level, and your actions are determined by soul physics.
If your actions are not driven by the laws of physics, or by a higher level of soul physics, then your actions must be driven by a random process. And if your actions are random, how can you be said to be responsible for anything? Therefore you have no free will.