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by rogueleaderr 4833 days ago
I think we're only disagreeing on a pretty narrow point. I basically define "free" in this case as "impossible in principle to definitely predict". That's why I'm resistant to the strange matter explanation, because although neutrinos etc do behave unusually I haven't seen evidence that they behave without any laws. I could be wrong about that; I don't know much about strange matter.

But re: my last sentence, the idea is that:

1) Free will cannot follow laws 2) All physical objects follow laws 3) Therefore free will cannot be physical, if it exists

And re: disproval, I kind of think my position may actually be testable. I'm not clever enough to think of an experiment, but my contention is that "will" can have causal influence on the world. And where there's influence, there can be measurement.