we are moths pulled to the flame of the most entrenched free-will myth. We’ve already examined versions of partial free will—not now but in the past; not here but where you’re not looking. This is another version of partial free will—yes, there are our attributes, gifts, shortcomings, and deficiencies over which we had no control, but it is us, we agentic, free, captain-of-our-own-fate selves who choose what we do with those attributes.

