[FRIAM] alternative response

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Thanks, Glen, 

The following over simplification of your view is NOT meant as satire, only as clarification for my limited purposes:

I am hiking on an E/ W knife-edge ridge, uncertain which route to take down.  I take a step to the north, which encourages another, and so forth.  I am freed of the tendency to descend down the S. side.   One might call this "freed will."  

N

Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
 


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I already answered this! >8^D It is freedom from the other branches not taken (or perhaps freedom from a repetition of the branch one did take). The freedom starts at 0, accumulates to some peak, then turns into slavery.

On 6/16/20 4:05 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> I don't think we can ever set up such a test until we have come to an agreement concerning what free will is freedom FROM. 

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