About the free will: yes, or consciousness "sits" in our brains; our brains are bond by the laws of the reality, so it is possible to "manufacture" someone with exactly (for example) my "free will" .... but .... my "copy" would then needs to have my exactly DNA, exactly my history of life (every second, every previous event and every previous choice) ... so its mathematically almost impossible ...
And that still doesn't depreciate the importance of the possibility to make choices for every conscious living being.