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I like to think it's a probability distribution that you have some influence over.

I choose to catch a ball. I've just made it 99% likely that I'll catch it. But there's still room for chaos to ensure it's not a deterministic outcome.



Free will is sometimes failing at things you set out to do? We hardly need quantum theory to explain that humans are clumsy or sometimes mispredict the trajectory of a thrown object.


Free will is deciding what to do under the known bodily/physics constraints. Free will is thinking and imaging whatever you want under no constraints.




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