Exactly, this is my thinking as well; I've mentioned the recursive concept in another comment before. And I suspect the question of free will is not resolvable

Exactly, this is my thinking as well; I've mentioned the recursive concept in another comment before. And I suspect the question of free will is not resolvable until the hard problem of consciousness is solved. The cells in our bodies may not have free will, but we might. The issue involves characterizing what exactly does or does not have free will, which is bound up with the question of consciousness.