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What XiXiDu said - "free will" is assigned as a problem for aspiring rationalists to solve, and I really don't see a problem with trying to do so in a top-level post, so I voted up this post in hopes of seeing it out of the negatives.
I think the general view around here is vaguely compatibilist, but only in the sense of realizing that the free will question is asking the wrong question, and I'd rather not give away more than that if you haven't worked it out.
I agree that the question is the wrong question. And I assume that my saying forget the straw men of determinism and freewill and get on with the real question of how we actually make decisions was fairly clear. My emotional reaction to compatibilism is that it is a bit of a cope out. It attacks neither determinism or freewill and does not ask the scientific based question, which is the one that can in future be answered. But I certainly think it is an improvement over the old, old argument.