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The contemporary philosopher Daniel Dennett (b. 1942) has given us something substantial to explain a certain aspect of the free will, an engineering model that fits nicely with everything we know and understand about the mind, about causation and about intentional actions. This is the cognitive hypothesis of a random consideration generator embedded in the brain. There does indeed appear to be something inside us that works like a little machine that simply produces considerations, which we then remain free to entertain or discard according to preference.