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What about the possibility that free will is either a fundamental/essential property within the universe (like an elan vital for free will), or an emergent property of certain complex systems? In either of these two cases, reductionism would still be true, it would just leave most current reductionists wrong about free will.
That theory has been thoroughly demolished by the evidence.
The essentialist theory? I agree. I'm simply being as generous as conceivable about empirical details in my still-winning argument.
I don't understand what you mean. If the free-will-is-fundamental claim has negligible support, it isn't worth mentioning.
Edit: Ah, I didn't read the context. Bad RobinZ!