That's some feisty old philosophical language.... To put it in more poetic terms (Leonard Cohen's), I think free will is overrated. We very often act because b

That's some feisty old philosophical language.... To put it in more poetic terms (Leonard Cohen's), I think free will is overrated. We very often act because because we are compelled to act, or not to act. Back to the original topic or bird warfare... What I mean is that whatever compels (or maybe convinces) woodpeckers to warfare may be similar to what compels or convinces humans to do the same thing. If not birds, chimps. The debate about free will are poetic in nature, imo. It's a matter of what we call things and how feel about them. Less so about what things are.