Neuroscience and free will

I agree with qualia and agency, but I have no experience of free will. Thoughts appear in my mind as if by magic. I can control them to some degree. But I don't think I experience any sort of spectrum of free will versus determinism. I cannot tell whether my thoughts are free or determined.

~~ Paul

The "I" with the mysterious power of agency, that can control to some extent what "bubbles up" and especially whether it is responded to or not. This reminds me of Michael Egnor's thoughts about Benjamin Libet's research from his article that I quoted in the beginning post of this thread:

....The brain, then, has activity that corresponds to a pre-conscious urge to do something. But we are free to veto or accept this urge. The motives are material. The veto, and implicitly the acceptance, is an immaterial act of the will....Libet noted the correspondence between his experiments and the traditional religious understanding of human beings. We are, he said, beset by a sea of inclinations, corresponding to material activity in our brains, which we have the free choice to reject or accept.