JanetK comments on Two straw men fighting - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JanetK 10 August 2010 08:32:25AM 1 point [-]

I am sorry. I honestly find it very hard to understand what you are trying to say and more importantly why. Honestly, my fault but I don't get it.

Comment author: XiXiDu 10 August 2010 09:08:08AM 0 points [-]

I'm saying that to talk about free will we first have to define what we mean by 'free will'. Further I give a definition of what I mean, how I define the term 'free will'. I define 'free will' as something universal that gradually exists on different levels. I define 'free will' as a measure of goal realization. That is, free will of a child < adult < superhuman artificial intelligence. Except if you are jailed, you might have less free will than a kid.

I believe that our feeling of being free agents represents the extrapolated and retrospective perception of goal realization and not what is talked about in metaphysics, that our intentions are free from cause. It's rather that our ability to cause, to realize our intentions can be and is gradually perceived to be free.