Free will is an illusion, but so is the belief that free will is desirable. The fact that a roller-coaster’s path is predetermined doesn't make it any less fun.
If we take "free will" to mean that one's mind can transcend what its brain has intended for it, I see no evidence for this. All signs point to a strictly physicalist relationship between mind and brain.
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Of course, free will is a flexible term, and if you interpret it to mean something other than what I have defined it as here, you could make the case that we do in fact have free will.
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Disagree. Physicalism by no means implies we understand the relationship between low level processes and higher order parameterizations of behavior over time. We know far closer to nothing than everything about the fundamental nature of the systems in question. Not definitional.
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