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ughaibu wrote:

Cito di Pense wrote:But what has happened when the meeting has failed to take place, as happens often enough?

Well, as you're apparently perplexed by such results, let's leave it as an exercise for the reader.
Hint, whichever way it goes, we record the result.

That's just how I responded, ughaibu. Free will is ALWAYS in operation. You can't tell when it isn't, so you will insist that it works around the clock. All that goes to show is an emotional commitment to the concept, and not a reasoned understanding that it is not possible to determine whether or not free will operates, and if so, when. You'll just say it operates whenever constraints do not intervene, and that's why it's a fucking tautology. Anyway, we inherited the concept from religious nuts. If you like that state of affairs, I have a couple of guesses as to why, and I can use my free will to 'decide' on one of them, because there are no obvious constraints (or consequences) to the decision, making it meaningless to the analysis of free will.