>>82239922
I believe everyone has a degree of free will, yet very few use it. To practice free will, you must understand why you do the things you do.
>>82239935
Source? Just been pondering this a very long time, killing time.
>I am my brain
I believe we control only a part of our bodies. If I was my brain, I could simply turn off my emotions, pain, control my organs. And yet I cannot, our brain is a calculator, a computer, it works in the background influencing us in ways that most don't realize. All the feelings & choices come from your brain calculating what is most beneficial to us, though it works on an old operation system of the hunter gatherer days.
>We are informed by instinct, not controlled by it.
Do you do things you enjoy? Why? Because your brain told you that it was beneficial & now is telling you to do it. Everything we do is influenced by our brain, the only way to say that you do not act on instinct, is to do absolutely nothing ever.
When someone decides to against what they enjoy, it is because their brain has made the calculations & finds it worthwhile for a reason or another.