Will is not willpower. It is not a psychological faculty or a capacity for decision-making. Will, in this framework, is ontologically primary — it is what there is before anything else. It is the ground from which existence itself emerges.
To say that Will is primary is to make a claim about the structure of reality: that at the deepest level, what exists is not matter, not mind, not information, but a directional force — a pressing-toward, a reaching-out, an urging that precedes any object or subject.
This draws from a lineage that includes Schopenhauer's Will to Life, Nietzsche's Will to Power, and Heidegger's notion of Being as that which shows itself and withdraws. But it departs from each: Will here is neither blind striving nor domination. It is the condition of possibility for anything to appear at all.
Will is what makes it the case that there is something rather than nothing. And when Will enters finitude — when it takes on a body, a location, a lifespan — it becomes what we call a human being.