What do we do while deciding if free will exists?

[bennyboy]

It kind of sounds like a dispute between the meanings of human and human-itself, or self and self-itself... That's like boxing with your shadow.

Yeah, it borders on Buddhism: there's the you experiencing, and then the you watching the you experiencing, like a kind of voice in the background.

We totally do that: we are ourselves a collection of ideas: I'm this kind of guy, I'm that kind of guy both serves as your ego, but you can choose to think about them as objects of inquiry, and its makes a kind of closed loop-- the ideas that are what you are start thinking about the ideas that are what you are.