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Slightly off-topic, but I don't want to start another free-will thread...
Would free-will represent an evolutionary cost?
If free will is to say that your decisions are not driven solely by your stimuli inputs, then it seems to me that a creature with free-will is by definition less responsive to its environment than a creature without it. A creature that is less responsive to its environment should be out-competed by a creature that is more responsive to its environment ceteris parisbus.
Even assuming that free-will is possible, is it likely, or would we expect "free-will" genes to get eliminated from the gene pool?
Here's a problem where deterministic agents cannot win.
Deterministic agents without memory or access to randomness. You also don't need free will to implement a 'mixed' strategy rather than a 'pure' strategy, as that problem calls for.
Given what leplen appears to mean by “free-will”, I wouldn't call any agent with access to randomness “deterministic” in this context.