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If Nietzsche rejects the will, how does he claim that man can be explained by the will to power?

In Twilight Nietzsche says that man is not the product of an intention or will. How does this square with his comments about the will to power? Does Nietzsche think individuals can progress, or are they just born weak or strong? If I'm a "slave" (A) and I want to be a "master" (B), but Nietzsche is right that there is no will, how can I get from A to B? If I'm missing something feel free to let me know!
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It's easy to be misled by the term 'will'. However, the will-to-power isn't analogous to willpower or intentionality, and it doesn't do goal-setting so it won't help you get from A to B. As Nietzsche conceived of it TWTP entails a metaphysical and ontological theory about existence as such, what makes change possible and what unifies and maintains existence through change. ALL change. In a way TWTP is Nietzsche's response to a far older discussion between Parmenides, a pre-Socratic philosopher who argued on behalf of eternal, timeless being, and Heraklaetos, another pre-Socratic philosopher who argued on behalf of flux and unending change.

As such TWTP encompasses far more than individual agency, and it really doesn't have anything to do with 'will' considered independently of power (i.e. expression). Will-to-power (the hyphens are necessary in English) is expressed in whatever is actually happening at any given moment. In this it can be likened to evolution, which is expressed in whatever biological organisms happen to be alive at any particular moment. Also like evolution TWTP doesn't have any goal or purpose.

Since Nietzsche is a preeminent philosopher of change, he obviously believes that people can change. Since in fact they do. A weak man can become strong and vice versa. It can also be the case that the very quality that makes a person strong under one set of circumstances is the same quality that makes them weak under a different set of circumstances.