Seconded. (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, September 06, 2010, 04:47 (4975 days ago) @ dhw

dhw
> A definition of free will has to encompass all decisions and all influences that might prevent decisions from being "free". I wonder if it wouldn't be worthwhile looking at poor old dhw's definition, which everyone has ignored apart from Romansh, who has sort of come round to not entirely rejecting it (he doesn't like the "conscious" bit). Let's see if the revised version includes your criteria: 
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> "An entity's conscious ability to make decisions independently of constraints beyond the control of that entity".
> -No--I didn't mean to forget you, but I would say that your definition certainly encompasses the criteria I set forth. It gives us an upper and lower bound.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"