Those who claim that Free Will is an illusion are totally ignoring the power of decision making. If we have no free will, we wouldn’t have to make a decision about anything. Everything will just be occurring to us instead of we aim for them. To decide something, you are supposed to determine inside of you that this is what you will be doing. If there is no free will, actions will happen regardless of decision making. You will be just heading toward something with the decision about it already calculated and picked at the level of the unconscious without you forcing any action to be taken, and consciously you will be just observing you acting according to a decision that was already took unconsciously. This is not what happens in reality. There are times when you are forced to do something whether you like it or not for reasons that make it not up to you to pick whether to do such an action or not. For example you are extremely thirsty and finally you came across a glass of fairly cold water. You will witness your hand moving toward it and you drinking the water whether you like it or not, whether you determine that this is the right course of action for the next moment or not. This isn’t how all our lives are supposed to be. When there is no actual necessity to choose something, chances are, you will not exert any kind of effort unconsciously to make a decision about it. The decision about it will be almost entirely arbitrary. If you are hungry now, you will get ideas about what to eat and how to obtain it from a predetermined source unconsciously, but when you are full, you will be expected to exert an induced effort to even try to consider whether or not to lick some ice cream. Here you will say is it worth it? Am I too full? At least taste the thing. It is okay if you get some help from the unconscious mind. Like you are asking your unconscious mind to give you its opinion whether or not ‘we’ should proceed and grab the ice cream cone. But this doesn’t mean that you don’t have free will in here. You started it. You suggested that licking the ice cream at the moment is something that is debatable on your plate now. You might totally ignore or overlook the ice cream and not give a chance to your unconscious to even desire the ice cream now or later on. If you really had no free will, you will be forced to lick the ice cream whether you felt like it or not. There would be no way to resist the urge or impulse to eat ice cream. You wouldn’t be able to overlook it. Your body would be moving regardless of your consent. You won’t get a vote in this matter. This idea leads to apathy, and it is to be easily expected to find that the scientific experiments lead to the conclusion that the people tested are all lacking free will, when this is how they are living their real lives. They are reactive people, waiting for their unconscious mind to dictate its random urges and impulses on them and they just obey. They are really people lacking free will, and that is something that is becoming endemic. And that is not a discovery to be cherished, that is just sad. It is embarrassing that people find it out of their realm of control to have behaved differently in any given situation, and everything couldn’t have turned out with another outcome, regardless of what they do to make that happen. Believing just because our people have become passive and reactive instead of self-aware, strong, with a habit and an ability of planning ahead before taking any action, and proactive, that there is no such thing as Free Will is just giving up, and is just pathetic. People no longer sit down and say what do I want to do today. They just empty their urges and repressed impulses and unconsciously created desires as they come or arise in their minds and call this a life, and call this freedom while this is the epitome of slavery. This is a failure mentality, just like the passive mentality of destroying your thoughts by meditating on a regular basis, until you are transformed into a lifeless brain dead very skilled and capable drone, so that you start feeling happy, now, after you have destroyed your ability to detect what sucks and feel bad about it to the extent that you cannot settle for not fixing or changing what is standing between you and living the epic life that you are supposed to desire and aspire and have ambition to live it. It is not about being happy. It is about having accidentally run into realizing that intelligence grants you effects, results, and states that make a useless life actually worth living forever.