Perhaps we should also ask “Why do we feel we have free will?”. The simplest answer, of course, is that we actually do. Albeit, it wouldn’t be beyond the scope of human biases to believe that we do if we don’t. Ultimately, if we were certain that we couldn’t feel more like we have free will than we already do, then we could reduce the question “Do we have free will?” to “Would someone without free will feel any differently than we do?”.
Taboo “free will” and then defend that the simplest answer is that we have it. X being true is weakly correlated to us believing X, where belief in X is an intuition rather than a conclusion from strong evidence.
Perhaps we should also ask “Why do we feel we have free will?”. The simplest answer, of course, is that we actually do. Albeit, it wouldn’t be beyond the scope of human biases to believe that we do if we don’t. Ultimately, if we were certain that we couldn’t feel more like we have free will than we already do, then we could reduce the question “Do we have free will?” to “Would someone without free will feel any differently than we do?”.
Taboo “free will” and then defend that the simplest answer is that we have it. X being true is weakly correlated to us believing X, where belief in X is an intuition rather than a conclusion from strong evidence.