Evolutionary-biologist Will Provine's perspective on free will helped very much to inform my own: https://evolutionnews.org/2015/09/william_provine/ https://ev

Evolutionary-biologist Will Provine's perspective on free will helped very much to inform my own: https://evolutionnews.org/2015/09/william_provine/ https://evolutionnews.org/2015/09/william_provine/ (Edit: this is apparently an intelligent-design advocacy publication, but it is telling how much his opponents respected him. Provine would have been touched. Here's another link, for context: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/ptb/6959004.0007.003/--william-provine-1942-2015?rgn=main;view=fulltext* https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/ptb/6959004.0007.003/--william-...) He had a lot of thoughtful and kind things to say, and a lot of courage to back it up. Have a gander at some of his work if it piques your interest. Thanks for your post -- it led me to the news that he had passed away. He had so long surpassed the odds on his specific guaranteed-to-recur cancer that I almost believed him to be invulnerable. Thank you, Will. We lead best by example; yours was superb.