Karma, reincarnation, no-self and free-will

Hello, I'd appreciate some comments:

karma and reincarnation together would make the existence overall perfectly just, rather than random; this makes me want to believe in them.

i already believe in no-self. it just makes sense--we're made of cells/atoms, so there is no immaterial self that can control matter. no-self leads to no free will, since who or what would have this free will if there is no self? again, it's just atoms, moving according to physical causes.

but i'm having trouble reconciling the doctrine of no-self, which makes total sense to me, and karma+reincarnation, which i would like to accept, because i want to see existence as just.

here are my questions:

if there is no self-then who gets reborn? surely not the same being, reliving the same life, but a different being, in different circumstances determined by karma. why say re-born then? what's different from that being just undergoing a completely new birth?

it seems that free-will is required for karma? then how is no-self to be reconciled with free-will?

if there is no-free will--then how can there be karma? or even, say i get reborn as an insect--how can i generate good karma then?

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