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The Manipulation Objection

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The manipulation objection: if a manipulator implanted your desires, acting on them is not free—yet determinism, the objection runs, differs only in lacking a manipulator.

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A neuroscientist programs a victim to want the crime and do it wantingly. Classical compatibilism must call that free.

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