Hi Hive account@clains and Hive account@camilla. Thanks for your patient answer, and I will look forward to the details of this account. I'm especially curious to hear about how our consciousness is a real part of the universe but "not caused by the universe" (panpsychism?), and how you could be any variety of Dennettian eliminativist about consciousness and still say that we have freedom as a product of this (non-existent) consciousness. (Or when you say your solution navigates between these positions, do you mean it avoids them all?) Anyway I suppose I will have to see in the full account!

And at any rate, I'm glad to hear we agree that retributive punishment is not justified (since I think that's the real heart of the issue).