I really enjoyed the college class I audited on the free will question, but I think this is one of those philosophy topics that highlights how much of the disagreements are intractable differences of intuition.
For what it's worth, I mostly agree with you? Sometimes in conversation with people whose conception of free will is profoundly different from my own, I will slide into a semi-compatibilist "we still have moral responsibility" position, but that's more "I'm often willing to speak someone else's language" than anything else. On my own, I compatibilism.
Popping back up to the attempted point about philosophy in fiction: I agree with you. A lot of people who tell stories are not students of philosophy, even on the level of "spends too much time on the Internet", and they tend towards obvious questions and obvious-to-them answers.
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I really enjoyed the college class I audited on the free will question, but I think this is one of those philosophy topics that highlights how much of the disagreements are intractable differences of intuition.
(...huh - "Free will" article on Wikipedia looks like a pretty solid overview, at least in the intro part.)
For what it's worth, I mostly agree with you? Sometimes in conversation with people whose conception of free will is profoundly different from my own, I will slide into a semi-compatibilist "we still have moral responsibility" position, but that's more "I'm often willing to speak someone else's language" than anything else. On my own, I compatibilism.
Popping back up to the attempted point about philosophy in fiction: I agree with you. A lot of people who tell stories are not students of philosophy, even on the level of "spends too much time on the Internet", and they tend towards obvious questions and obvious-to-them answers.