I've come here to talk to you about a relatively easy problem, I think.

It's just a very old and ancient problem.

This dates back to some of the earliest ancient philosophers.

But the question about free will and how it is that we understand our ability,

what seems to be our ability to direct our actions and influence the world around us,

and our abilities to understand how the order and structure in nature.

And so, you know, I have about 40 minutes, hopefully, and so I can't claim that I'm going to

solve every single problem related to this and put them to rest. What I'm hoping to do

is portray an image of what a way to think about free will and a way to think about nature

that shows a harmony between the two and a possibility of their working together in certain

ways. Now, to do that, I want to spend a little bit of working together in certain ways.

Now, to do that, I want to spend a little bit of time just talking about what we mean when we say free will,

because that's in many ways sort of an initial problem, because people kind of have different ideas

about what they mean when they say free will and different contexts, depending

on what their sort of philosophical background is.

I think kind of a good starting point is, so I listed a few kind of definitions, quote-unquote,

sort of descriptions of free will.

This first description from the Sanford's like philosophy, this article on compat compatibilism kind of tries to give what he says

this theory neutral point of view

that free will can be defined

as the unique ability of persons

to exercise control

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