Our awareness does not make choices. Reflections and decisions are things that happen WITHIN awareness (as well as beyond our conscious awareness), not things that awareness DOES.

I've written about free will plenty of times before. Here is the list:

https://medium.com/@edward-john/list/free-will-a9efb301c4cb

But this is my main article on the topic:

https://medium.com/@edward-john/do-we-have-free-will-almost-certainly-not-4ef11c73ebce