We have free will from our perspectives If there is only one timeline, and the future already exists, we have no free will from the perspective of someone who can see the whole timeline - but that's only scary because it brings up scary questions, in my opinion. There might be good answers. Maybe whoever sees the whole timeline is some author writing a good story for us to be in, and it's fine for us that someone always knew what we'd do. If there are quantum divergences that split different possibilities into multiple timelines, meaning a timeline happens for every possibility, then why are you experiencing this timeline and not another timeline? Maybe free will is just different versions of you experiencing every possible choice. That's kinda not scary to me. If there are quantum uncertainties that no level of existence can get around, with only one timeline but no possible view of the future, then we have free will in the sense that our choices actually determine which 1 of 2 timelines will happen. That's also kinda not scary to me. Replying to you instead of the original asker because idc about leaderboard points on this one. PS if I have no free will then when I say "Digit is hot" that's not me saying that, it's the universe making me say the only possible thing for me to say at the time. That kinda implies god thinks she's hot or something