I think of free will as being the ability to make predictions and decide what to do based on those predictions. In other words, having free will means being a decision agent. I define it this way because the typical human feeling that we have free will exists for good reason, and I prefer to define free will in terms of what that feeling actually refers to, rather than having to tell people that their feeling of free will is wrong, when it isn’t entirely.
I think of free will as being the ability to make predictions and decide what to do based on those predictions. In other words, having free will means being a decision agent. I define it this way because the typical human feeling that we have free will exists for good reason, and I prefer to define free will in terms of what that feeling actually refers to, rather than having to tell people that their feeling of free will is wrong, when it isn’t entirely.