Benito comments on The Ultimate Source - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Benito 14 July 2013 09:28:03AM *  0 points [-]

A. On your definition, free will is something that people uncontroversially have. Nobody ever doubted that people have the sort of local control you discuss. Nobody ever doubted that people are more like rocks than computers. So, compatibilist definitions of free will are boring, and odd, to me for at least that reason.

I say, "Hooray, I made it add up to normality!" Philosophy should be as normal as possible, but no more normal than that.

This is excellent, and should be upvoted more.