@Futilitarian while I am sympathetic to your intuitions, I don't think that the compatiblist account given here needs to be seen as a heavy diminishment of freedom. If free-will is about agent-causality then... how are agents implemented? Can a brain not be the physical implementation of an Agent? Can the workings of the brain not be the physical implementation of 'choice'? Why not? If we are agents, and we have freedom, and we have freedom because we have causal power as agents, then... perhaps a brain is exactly the kind of thing that can implment such a thing as 'agency'.
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