What if free will does not require escaping determinism? My forthcoming book, Meaning in an Irreversible World, develops Emergent Libertarianism: a defense of agency, responsibility, and meaningful choice in a deterministic universe.
Choices are not outside causation. They are determined by agents acting within it.
Life has meaning not because the universe hands it down from above, but because we make choices that shape the futures we must inhabit.
This has implications not only for human responsibility, but for animal agency and artificial agents.
The question may not be whether we are building intelligent machines, but whether we are raising responsible minds.