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Good to know - from the context I thought compatibilism simply meant that 'will' could influence the physical world and the physical world got to have a say as

• tsimionescu 5y ago
  Compatibilism refers to the position that "free will" can be meaningfully accepted to exist in a purely deterministic world. It is the position that even if we accept that your actions 10 years from now could have been predicted with 100% accuracy the very second the Big Bang happened, we can still hold that you have free will in a meaningful sense. The name refers to the idea that free will is compatible with a perfectly determined future. > doesn't saying there are hard and easy decisions require there be a difference of quality between the categories? Not necessarily. There is a difference of "quantity" if you want, but not quality. It's like the following model: it's easy to compute 1+1, and it's hard to compute 19312123+123468. But they are not qualitatively different, they don't need different explanations: they both have the same nature, they use the same algorithm, one is just a bigger amount of state than the other.