Free Will - Yes or No?

I strongly believe in the saying that - Where there is a Will there is Way..

.. BUT I also started reflecting on Free Will. Its a controversial subject.

Are we the captain of the ship? Or, are we living our destiny - our past deeds, our Karma?

Here is what Robert Anton Wilson has to say from a scienftic perspective:

"All your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free-will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules"

hmm.. Is there a self? May be its too early to discuss that subject. So lets concentrate on.. IS there such thing as Free Will or do we live a pre-defined pattern ?

Arthur Schopenhauer put the puzzle of free will and moral responsibility in these terms:
Everyone believes himself a priori to be perfectly free, even in his individual actions, and thinks that at every moment he can commence another manner of life. ... But a posteriori, through experience, he finds to his astonishment that he is not free, but subjected to necessity, that in spite of all his resolutions and reflections he does not change his conduct, and that from the beginning of his life to the end of it, he must carry out the very character which he himself condemns...."

Cause and Effect. Its called determinism, Free Will vs Determinism..

We are limited according to the laws of the universe, in our choices to x. Moreover, we are limited to our subconsious imprint,. WE will always make a choice that reflects our behaviour pattern, we might believe its Free and Independent however it is not.

UNTIL we are aware that we always react in the same way, until we say NO to our inner programming and choose be anew, to think differently, to react differently.. Until then we are a prisoners to our mind, to our self.. and there is no trace of Free Will.

My conlusion is that only liberated and enlightened beings can be Free of Will, Free of Cause & Effect, Free of limitations..