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		vidarh on Oct 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can you use your "free will"? Try your hand I challenge you to get any more than a single digit percent of any representative sample of people to agree a random process is free will by definition. It's one of exceedingly few definitions I've heard in decades of discussing the subject that I'll agree doesn't immediately make free will impossible, but at the same time it's one that too me at least exemplifies something that is neither free nor will.

otabdeveloper4 on Oct 31, 2023 [–]

If you want to talk about "free will" rigorously, you need to consider the human being as a random process.

vidarh on Oct 31, 2023 | [–]

No, I don't. I can reject the notion of free will on the basis that I would never consider a "random process" either "free" nor an expression of "will".

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