A basic finding of cognitive psychology is that people have no conscious experience of most of what happens in the human mind. Many functions associated with perception, memory, and information processing are conducted prior to and independently of any conscious direction. What appears spontaneously in consciousness is the result of thinking, not the process of thinking.
So... who is it that has (or doesn't have) free will?
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So... who is it that has (or doesn't have) free will?
Everyone has free will.
It just happens that free will is the effect and not the cause, output rather than input. Buddhists were right about the self being an illusion.