If it&#x27;s an illusion why is it set up like an illusion at all? If you don&#x27;t have free will, it&#x27;s not like you&#x27;d be <i>sad</i> or would <i>do something</i> about it. <i>You have no free will</i>. You can&#x27;t even think negative philosophical questions about it, as a consequence. We could just as well have been born as an awareness trapped inside a meat suit intimately aware that we are just observing what is happening in and around that meat suit. The meat suit would grow up, get in fights, backpack across Asia, get married, get cancer, die. To the outside world, it would be indistinguishable to a person with actual free will.