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Comment author: dlthomas 29 March 2011 09:14:17PM 0 points [-]

Strictly, it should be "a mechanism for incompatibilist free will." Free will may or may not be compatible with physical determinism, depending on exactly how you formulate it. Formulations which object to physical determinism are dubbed "incompatibilist."

As a compatibilist, I would assert that the mind does have mechanisms for free will and nonetheless there may be only one possible universe at T+epsilon given a state of the universe at T.