Generally I don't think it's that useful to talk about because it means different things to different people, what they consider the salient points are also often different, and it's very easy to conflate ideas within this space. All that said though, FWIW my own take, and the salient points for me, are that the anything my brain does follows the laws of physics and is therefore determined, and thus not 'free', but at the same time, my lived experience, illusion though it may be, is of the freedom to make choices... the freedom to weigh up options etc. In that sense I'm free, but given that ultimately it is my brain weighing up these options, deterministically, then ultimately no, I'm not free. But that is just my own 2c.
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