I see your trick, nature. I see how you out-clevered physics. No no, we all said. Free will could not possibly exist! How could it? Nature is of two ways only, fixed or chaotic, and from these nothing free could be born, except dreams and illusions.

But I know your trick you see. You dream, and through dreams free the will. Clever you are, I see you. You could not in the present butt heads with physics, so you created imagination. In this imaginary world, timelines and scenarios are planned, still nature bound, but somehow free to roam. Here, universes were born under watchful eyes, wants tested, choices made, all fed by instincts and desires. Then back to the present to take a path, a path not there before. It’s like you let us live multiple lives temporarily, and make the call on which one to choose. And in this way, we are free from the choices at hand.

So it’s true, free will exists. But only if you imagine, plan, decide. Otherwise, we’re nothing more than rolling rocks going down a hill.