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Dan Dennet died.
As a young 'un, I always found the arguments around free will & determinism unsatisfying on both sides.
Then I found Dennet's unpacking of #Compatibilism and it jibed with my experience and observation, so I ended up reading most everything he wrote for normal folks, and even some of what he wrote for philosophers. He was among the great sense-makers of the late twentieth century for me.