I feel encouraged in that because free will itself is an inconsistent idea, as a lot of people wiser than I am have pointed out before. For your will to be free, it shouldn’t be caused by anything else. But if it wasn’t caused by anything—if it’s an “uncaused cause,” as Friedrich Nietzsche put it—then it wasn’t caused by you, regardless of just what you mean by you. As Nietzsche summed it up, it’s “the best self-contradiction that has been conceived so far.” I’m with Nietzsche.
