We identify free-will as one of the distinctive features that sets us homo sapiens apart from the other organisms. No, it's not. It is the awareness of our conation that makes us unique. But again, that's a veracity, too. We've no free-will as a matter of fact. Whatever we choose, whatever we do, is ultimately the result of past experience, governed by the causality of nature. What you think now is the inevitable result of past thinking and experience, and in turn that was the result of even earlier thoughts...so free-will belies the real mind trammeling.
The conclusion above serves as the preamble to my explication of digital cognition and conation, of which I shall post shortly.