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John Platko wrote:

GrahamH wrote:given things got stuck on whether free will means we make our own selves move or not moving on to 'sholder angels' seems hugely ambitious right now

Perhaps you have a point.

We should probably retreat to a smaller free will problem.



The good folks at Harvard give us...

Now that's better. A far more modest proposal. Whether you turn left or right is either because there are compelling indicators or it's somewhat random.
Aimilar choices in similar circumstances produce different behaviours. Viability of random selections are still subject to some sort of filtering. So will isn't driving but it can do the due diligence on what comes up as a sort of predictive error correction.

I think that all fits well with my weave of strings metaphor. The filter can be seen as part of the web of stings.

It ticks many of the boxes for compatibilist free will.