Communication over the internet is hard and I’m not sure if I can convey the idea briefly in a HN post, but the idea is simple. The assumption that free will an

Communication over the internet is hard and I’m not sure if I can convey the idea briefly in a HN post, but the idea is simple. The assumption that free will and determinism are at odds with each other is ungrounded when you actually look into it. “Non-determinism” implies randomness which is NOT what we are talking about when we say something like “Susie made a decision.” She makes a decision for reasons, and those reasons are the determinant (cause) of her choice. When you look into what decision making actually is, I.e. the procedures that underlying it, you find that it MUST be the case that our thinking is mostly if not all deterministic for free will to be of any meaning at all. So really, the question is “why wouldn’t they be compatible?” And it says a lot about our introspective blind spots that we have for so long thought that free will and determinism were at odds with each other.