Free will is a convenient moral and legal abstraction. It doesn’t need to be ditched, even if epistemically non-existent.
It’s epistemically false because our actions are dictated solely by factors that are outside our control (even what we think is outside our control). But those factors are so complex in both number and interaction that might as well abstract them out and pretend that there’s individual choice, that Alice does something that Bob wouldn’t because of their “free will”.
Free will is a convenient moral and legal abstraction. It doesn’t need to be ditched, even if epistemically non-existent.
It’s epistemically false because our actions are dictated solely by factors that are outside our control (even what we think is outside our control). But those factors are so complex in both number and interaction that might as well abstract them out and pretend that there’s individual choice, that Alice does something that Bob wouldn’t because of their “free will”.