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What is the strongest steelman against the belief that we all have free will?
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Once free will is carefully defined, the free will vs. determinism debate resolves itself completely. We do have free will (defined as evitability or similar)[1]; we don't have free will (defined as freedom physics).
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The meme that there is an unresovable conflict between free will and determinism remains sticky in culture even though it isn't widely considered a big issue in contemporary philosophy of mind. The idea that there isn't really a conflict is called compatibilism[2]; the opposite being incompatibilism.
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[1]: Dan Dennett's Freedom Evolves is good for this. [2]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/
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