RichardKennaway comments on Open Thread, Jun. 15 - Jun. 21, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 22 June 2015 08:39:09PM 0 points [-]

Examples of free will: pretty much all of people's everyday activities.

Examples of non-free will: being asleep.

Borderline examples: the will exercised by a being in a state of endarkenment, e.g. due to the three poisons.

"Free will" is a pleonasm. There are degrees of it, but there is not really such a thing as an unfree will.