Well choice is different from will, so we must be able to differentiate.
If will is thought and choice is the choosing between multiple possibilities or options, then in the same system of having to make a choice, is one not free to make a choice to not make a choice? Which leaves open all possibilities? Is this not a choice to make to have or continue a free will? If every choice has a reaction then what is the reaction of not choosing? Freedom, wouldn’t it be, where or what are the restrictions of not choosing, that one may not experience?
Well define experience, is an experience imagined not still, an experience?
Understanding and knowledge reveals more possible choices that one did not know previously, so if one chooses for their satisfaction to be knowledge, where do restrictions lie outside of bodily desire? Knowledge will always be and always continue, it never ends, so if you put it as your hearts desire, you will always be happy and you will always be free in a sense.
So let’s think, Based off of the arguments of people arguing against free will due to choices being made out of “satisfaction”, so if one always chooses to be satisfied, where does knowledge come from if one is always comfortable? One must endure great pain in ‘hopes’ to reveal knowledge and understanding. Is knowledge or understanding not painful? So if one chooses to know or understand are they not making a choice out of choosing suffering instead of satisfaction? The satisfaction is not set in stone, due to what one may not know, may kill them. So at the risk of death and choosing to learn of what one may not know (which is where fear stems from), satisfaction does not play a role because the satisfaction of one reaching knowledge, is not known to happen for sure if one chooses a path of the unknown, which the unknown may possibly lead to knowledge.
To choose what is known is to choose comfort/satisfaction. The unknown is not satisfaction and thus knowledge exists.
All this arguing over satisfaction determining everything is kind of self defeating due to knowledge existing as the very discomfort one may have in knowing/understanding.
The body and physical realm, is merely a test of our desires, the determinist system of entrapment. If I choose a path of knowledge then it is revealed to me that desires may be the trap of which defeat a free will.
Do you understand what I may be getting at?
To have more knowledge is to know of more possibilities, to have more possibilities is to have more choices, to have more choices is to be free in will, by will.
Knowledge is the very thing that sets people free from a system of determinism by being able to observe how it functions. Will and knowledge is infinite so to try and bind knowledge is naive, which will complies with knowledge/wisdom if one uses the correct model of thought, which is the point of philosophy.
I’d say more so, free will is being able to choose what the Id may manifest ‘as’.