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a choice is a free action made by a person that causes the world to be one way rather than another.
We have examples of mechanistic "choosers" -- computer programs, for example, that execute decision trees. Those programs, although they "choose" in a sense, do not possess free will, because their choices are not "free". (Their "choices" are only analogous to ours.)
How can a choice be free? At least three things must be true:
A) The chooser must be the cause of an event,
B) The chooser must have been able to do something else, and
C) The chooser must have known that the result would likely occur.
2007-07-20
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