A key requirement of free will is to be unexplainable. If we can explain free will then it’s no longer “free will”—it’s just a process, deterministic or probabilistic, that can be followed step by step.
Even if current science cannot explain it, the idea that it can be explained already disqualifies it from being free will.
So, the state of affairs where we have free will is to have some component in our decision making process that is complex enough and yet fundamentally unexplainable.
A key requirement of free will is to be unexplainable. If we can explain free will then it’s no longer “free will”—it’s just a process, deterministic or probabilistic, that can be followed step by step.
Even if current science cannot explain it, the idea that it can be explained already disqualifies it from being free will.
So, the state of affairs where we have free will is to have some component in our decision making process that is complex enough and yet fundamentally unexplainable.