As a side note, we’re seeing increasing alignment in the agnostic sciences that free will does not exist as an inherent quality of our nature. This isn’t exactly new, it’s been unpacked by the likes of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and many others, but it’s becoming a foundational space in recent decades.

The watered-down contemporary take seems to be: “No, you don’t have free will but it doesn’t matter anyway.”