>>97 "The nonshared environment, in a phrase, is free will. Not the kind of metaphysical free will that no one believes in anymore, according to which human souls float free above the mechanistic constraints of the physical world, but an embodied free will, tethered to biology, that encompasses our ability to respond to complex circumstances in complex and unpredictable ways and in the process to build a self." - Eric Turkheimer This is a good summary of what I also believe.
>>97 The idea that modern day mass society and technology is somehow a rebuke of agency doesn't make a lot of sense. You can choose not to be on "social" media. Many people on here have. You can choose not to escape the botnet, to significantly expand your privacy and autonomy in the context of the digital world. Dig deeper dot club style. You can also choose to forgo the technological world entirely. Father Ted style. You have the ability to make those choices. Outside factors influencing people's decisions doesn't contradict the framework.
"The nonshared environment, in a phrase, is free will. Not the kind of metaphysical free will that no one believes in anymore, according to which human souls float free above the mechanistic constraints of the physical world, but an embodied free will, tethered to biology, that encompasses our ability to respond to complex circumstances in complex and unpredictable ways and in the process to build a self." - Eric Turkheimer
This is a good summary of what I also believe.