Imagine that a person claims to have no need to eat food of any kind—rather, he can live on light.From time to time, an Indian yogi will make such a boast, much to the merriment of skeptics. Need-less to say, there is no reason to take such claim sseriously, no matter how thin the yogi. However, a compatibilist like Dennett could come to the charlatan’s defense: The man does live onlight—we all do—because when you trace the origin of any food, you arrive at something that depends on photosynthesis. By eating beef, we consume the grass the cow ate, and the grass ate sunlight. So the yogi is no liar after all. But that’s not the ability the yogi was advertising, and his actual claim remains dishonest (or delusional). This is the trouble with compatibilism. It solves the problem of “free will” by ignoring it.
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