DBT
Contributor
The desire/prompt or urge to think, deliberate and act. Conscious will is formed in response to stimuli...a problem arises, a need, a desire or a fear, which is thought about and acted upon. Stimuli always comes first, unconscious, then propagated/nerve impulses, processed/neural networks and responded to, motor action, both in conscious and unconscious forms. All being brain activity, including conscious experience.
Based on that, it doesn't seem like we're particularly far apart in perspective on this. It's more a matter of nuances in definition than anything else. At the end of the day, it looks like both of us accept that problem-solving and decision-making actually exists as a process, and prompts to deliberate and make decisions also exist.
What are we arguing about again?
That this is supposed to be free will, I guess. Some folks say it is. They are wrong because conscious will is subject to the same neuronal information processing as consciousness in general, including motor actions. It is decision making, the selection of options based on a given set of criteria, needs wants, desires, fears. The exceptions being reflex loops, glitches and pathologies, tics, twitches, and other non chosen actions. Which obviously are not what anybody would think of as free will.