Well, my opinion is that consciousness is a problem for biology (specifically, neuroscience and evolutionary biology) not physics, as it is a characteristic of (some) living organisms, not a basic property of matter (pace panpsychism).

As for free will, I'm a compatibilist, like the Stoics: https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2017/12/06/the-philosophy-and-science-of-stoic-free-will/