A review by icywaterfall
Free: Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will by Alfred R. Mele

4.0

We do have compatibilistic free will; libertarian free will is ambitious but not definitely ruled out. Science does not rule out free will."

- In order for there to be libertarian free will, there would need to be deep openness about the future. I chose A, but could have chosen B, even if the conditions of the universe were the same. What would it feel like if it were necessarily true that, given the laws of nature and the condition of the universe at some past time, we proceed to make each and every decision we've actually made so far, in exactly the way we made them, and with the feelings we had at the time? The answer, to the best of my knowledge, is this; just the way it normally feels, just the way things feel now. I'm not saying that we don't have deep openness. I'm saying that the difference between deep openness and its absence isn't the kind of thing that can be felt.

- The main reason people say that free will doesn't exist is that they set the bar ridiculously high for it. They claim that in order to be free we need to be free from the causal matrix but that is simply too ambitious.