Posted: Aug 26, 2017 5:29 pm
GrahamH wrote:romansh wrote:
Having a thought I may do X seems to be simply saying I have a will to do X. So when we put the adjective free in front of will what does it mean? Free from constraint? Isn't that freedom of action?
It would just mean that what you will was not obviously coerced. thought to do X occurs to you and you act on it considering that it is your own thought. Isn't that what free will means?
If you mean having a gun to my head type of coercion then I would agree. If we mean my biology forced me to do X then I am not so sure.
I think we are agreeing overall.