What else could free will mean but the capacity to, when faced with multiple percieved options, select from among them?
What statistically predicts this selection obviously includes factors such as genetics and environment, but much less than 100% of the variability in behaviour has been demonstrated to be explained by any combination of factors. In other words, there is still lots of room for some other factor that determines behaviour other than immutable characteristics/experiences (e.g. potentially ‘free will’).
Some might argue, well yes that’s just because we haven’t measured them yet. Maybe…but that’s still an idea…and one the belief in which has been shown to predict worse outcomes.
What else could free will mean but the capacity to, when faced with multiple percieved options, select from among them?
What statistically predicts this selection obviously includes factors such as genetics and environment, but much less than 100% of the variability in behaviour has been demonstrated to be explained by any combination of factors. In other words, there is still lots of room for some other factor that determines behaviour other than immutable characteristics/experiences (e.g. potentially ‘free will’).
Some might argue, well yes that’s just because we haven’t measured them yet. Maybe…but that’s still an idea…and one the belief in which has been shown to predict worse outcomes.