I don't think that's true at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will
IMHO... one of the things we're going to eventually get to is what is the actual mechanism for the trillion+ cells of a single body to "Act" as one? I don't view my mind as a single entity except by the definition of society that we are all individual people. However, we, as people, are a collective. You can see how humans act as a collective and evolve building roads and bridges and utilizing natural resources together.
I look at the cells of the body in the exact same way. They come together to form organs and build roads and highways to move natural resources (oxygen, water, vitamins, and minerals) between their colonies. If a colony(organ) is blocked off it will die. If it consumes more than it can take in, it will die slowly.
When it comes to the brain, there is consciousness because the voices of many form a democratic government that operates with one voice. However, as in any democracy, the government does things that the people aren't aware of and don't always agree with.
For example... people with addictions hear another voice. The addiction grows a voice of its own similar to the voice of your conscience because millions of cells have gotten addicted and they communicate their desire for it together.
One can also study Dissociative Disorders
https://www.nami.org/About-Mental-Illness/Mental-Health-Conditions/Dissociative-Disorders
It makes sense that the mind (software running on the brain as bio hardware) is able to quarantine groups of neurons representing the memories of traumas and those memories can form their own sort of local government and voice, like the voice of an addiction.
So I would say free will isn't an illusion. The illusion is the idea that the mind is ONE sort of super cell when it is a collective of collaboration that intelligence and identity emerges from.
Our inability to realize the oneness in humanity is, again IMHO, a correlation with the same sort of mental illnesses that cause self-destructive behaviors in the human mind. Multiple identities/personalities can emerge just like we created different races that only exist as mental constructs. And in our insanity, we work against our own (HUMAN) species.
That is what makes us sick. We grow cancerous in wanting to block nature from others until they are fully cut off and die. And then we react by developing divisions and suspicions and oppression to which we must rebel against. Because we are sick and only love can save us.
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