Naturalism is no enemy of free will; it provides a positive account of free will, one that handles the perplexities better, in fact, than those views that try to protect free will from the clutches of science with an “obscure and panicky metaphysics” (in P. F. Strawson's fine phrase).

If electrodes were planted in your brain and triggered at random by an external source, you would regard that form of interference as a reduction of your freedom: someone “taking over”, or at least impeding, the operation of your brain. How can random quantum quirks inside your head represent anything other than “noise”? You decide to raise your arm, the neurons fire in the correct sequence, but a quantum fluctuation disturbs the signal. Your leg moves instead. Is that freedom?