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The question of freewill is perhaps best tackled in an analytic fashion. (Not strictly, of course, for this may be one of those meaningless questions according to logical positivism.) Anyways, one must think of what the self is. Most probably one will think that it’s, among other things, a mixture of ideals and consciousness (whatever that is). Thus, the question becomes: are my actions dictated by my ideals, consciousness, etc. It is a very complex question, however, if one considers the non-reasoned sways that our emotions sometimes provide. For example, perhaps one has a broken heart and feels compelled to call one's ex, even though one's ideals recommends not to call. If humans acted only logically and according a simple self comprised of ideals and paradigms then it would seem that the self does control all actions. Hence, freewill. However, we are not always so robot-like. It really does depend on the definition of the self is. I think that traditionally western religion would hold not only that the self does dictate actions, but that one may change one's self (one's ideals, paradigms, etc.). Thus, religion seems to hold out for an even stronger freewill than most compatibalists would agree with. Personally, I would just shrug this question off.
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