<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 9:23 AM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>The compatibilist definition of “free will” is essentially what laypeople mean when they say “he did it of his own free will”: he wanted to do it,</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Was there a reason he wanted to <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">do it? If there was then he's a cuckoo clock, if there wasn't then he's a roulette wheel.</span> </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>J<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ohn K Clark</span> </font></div></div></div>