Is free will real?

[bennyboy]

The self is an illusion so far as it confuses the thought of "self" with a definite (immaterial?) object, or homunculus, that is a little man in the brain who is separate from experience, the thing upon whom experiences are impressed. Beneath all our conceptions is an idea, an idea that a singular, central "self" is thinking. Contrarily, our brains are thinking machines, and the thought "self" is the ever-present subject upon whom experiences typically take shape.

Okay, then at least you can agree that free will as as real as this metaphysical homunculus, upon which almost all our motivations and sense of abstraction are founded?