We have free will, at least as a group of apes. Think of the problem from a protons point of view. I once read, a human is a protons way to look at itself. All

We have free will, at least as a group of apes. Think of the problem from a protons point of view. I once read, a human is a protons way to look at itself. All these protons were stuck in this gravity well, being tossed around this way and that. Until. Voyager. Some of those protons aren't rattling around with us anymore. Because a group of apes willed it so.