I don't know if there is freewill at all, but we do have the illusion of control. We do not know where thoughts spring, we do not know how the wiring parses information, but we can perhaps get the sense of freedom when we observe the processes and take a more active role in their direction, so our brain in the background makes slightly different decisions for us.
I agree. Some more consciousness, people call it today. For some reason, having a more active part in the experience, rather than just being lost in thought every step of the way, produces more changes than automation by impulse pleasing. There's something there, like a chance of another way of living.