> Any grownup comes to recognize that life situations are conflations of different vectors, and gradient conditions rather than Manichean (binary) conditions. I've been called many things, including "grownup." But be that as it may. It may take some doing to prove that having a little free will, or a kind of free will, or intermittent free will, etc., is different, in trying to establish its existence or non-existence, from "having free will." The issue right now is whether it exists at all. If we conclude that it does, then we can puzzle profitably over just how much we have or need and why. If you've concluded that we do have a dab or more of free will, please tell us how you know. Perhaps we'll be persuaded.
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