What can one do with the question of free will when so much has already been written about it?  Why add to the endless speculations on the topic?  I chose to write this paper in response to a conversation on free will which gave rise to the following question for me: “I do not think in terms of free will.  I think in terms of authenticity.  I wonder why that is?”  This paper offer my response to that question.

the question of free will