People tend to miscomprehend freedom as an act that is performed according to our will without any form of constraint or predisposition.<p>If this was the case, freedom would not exist since our whole life experiences predisposes us to unconsciously exercise our freedom of will in certain ways.<p>Here is an amusing example:<p>I'm 12 and I want to try using a big person's hammer for the first time. My annoying little brother is beside me (as always... sigh).<p>In mid-air, as I swing the hammer towards the nail, he yells (right in my ear): "You're going to hammer in that nail and because I knew this before it happenned, you didn't decide to hammer it on your own".<p>In this example, the lack of causality is evident and the amount of LBAF is enormous (LBAF: Little Brother Annoyance Factor)<p>The parallel can be made with the mind. It's not because we become cognitively aware of our choices fractions of seconds after some brain activity that seem to be decisional that we didn't "will" it, for all we know, this activity <i>is</i> the gist of willing.<p>Furthermore, there is no indication that our cognitive experiences do not mold our subconscious behaviours, so much that this subconscious activity naturally corresponds to our actual will.<p>Clearly, it is not sufficient to break a misconceived definition of will in order to claim that freedom of will does not exist, with the argument used, one would also need to prove that this subconscious brain activity is incoherent with our conscious activity.