Evan Selinger contemplates apps that help control our urges. How this relates to our understanding of free will:
Shaun Gallagher, philosophy professor and editor of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, is sympathetic to viewing the will as contextually located. "It's a mistake to think of the will as some interior faculty that belongs to an individual–the thing that pushes the motor control processes that cause my action," Gallagher says. "Rather, the will is both embodied and embedded: social and physical environment enhance or impoverish our ability to decide and carry out our intentions; often our intentions themselves are shaped by social and physical aspects of the environment."
The Dish 