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I see it more like this. I'm determined by what has happened up until now, but by will I determine my future. Determined by free will, that's a paradox. Any choice could not have been any other way than it was, it would be denial to see it like that. You decide how that influences the choices you do now for a better future that is largely uncertain. The best we can do is to improve upon our ability to predict outcomes and possibilities based on our past, cause and effect.
People believe either one or the other, but both are indeed true and false. It's the consequence of being intensely in the now and using my entire past to create my future. I don't believe in philosophical paradoxes, paradoxes are illusions cause it ain't that simple as either one or the other.
I would be happy to listen if you could devise of a practical (and not hypothetical) way to demonstrate that free will is any more or less illusory than determinism or any other empty belief positions for that matter.
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