I’ve come to think of consciousness as a special, privileged type of narrative. The very idea that we are conscious at all, is emotionally expensive to question or test.
Free will may be a useful delusion, a struggle to stay in the center of the narrative, despite many other competing heroes in our story.
In this sense, “willpower” has to do with how stubbornly the subject clings to the notion of free will, before giving up to let programming take over.
