Free will is very intuitive to us. We feel control over our actions and often take pleasure in our choices, but, in pursuit of atheism, many a philosophers and scientists have to assert that we are automatons and robots and free will is only an illusion:

May 2012 eGazette – Human Soul: The Final Frontier?

Sam Harris on “Free Will”

He denies free will, but, at the same time wants us to try to improve ourselves.  The presentation seems fairly self-contradictory to me.

Sam Harris: The Illusion of Free Will