Kind of a side point but “free will” means so many different things to so many different people, that conversations about it are pretty useless unless you have

Kind of a side point but “free will” means so many different things to so many different people, that conversations about it are pretty useless unless you have a lot of shared understanding about how it’s defined. The author seems to assume some unified understanding of the concept that just isn’t true. E.g: when my evangelical Christian relatives ask if I “believe in free will” the answer is “definitely not”. When a friend who I know is sincere and thoughtful asks, the answer is “yes, but it’s complicated”. When a professor of philosophy asks, the answer is “what kind of question is that?”