[PatrickHenry]

Is Hank really taking the position that there's no such thing as free will because "volition" is unavoidable?

Old joke in philosophy: It's because he had no choice in the matter.

[Doctor Stochastic]

I predicted that you would have to say that.

[betty boop]

...he had no choice in the matter.

:^)

Then on the other hand, one could convincingly argue that man is hardly lacking, let alone destitute of, real choices in life, absolutely every day we breathe air.

I gather this is still an [the???] open question? Or are we to concede that the dogmatists of whatever stripe out there have shut down this problem forever, with their ever neat and clever adumbrations of so-called reality?