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Old 02-11-2008, 05:30 PM
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Paul C. Anagnostopoulos is offline
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Originally Posted by David
Defining free will is, I suspect, rather like defining consciousness. As I have argued here at length that this may not be very helpful. I would simply define free will to be what humans normally mean by that expression.
I have no idea what the average person means by free will. Do you know? Is it like what the average person means by energy or quantum?

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Originally Posted by bertvan
I define free will as the ability to evaluate available information and make unpredictable, fallible, subjective choices based upon that evaluation.
Is this definition compatible with determinism and randomness?

~~ Paul
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