Usually I don’t. If I do it’s something like the capacity to follow whichever course of action is favored by a mental calculation of your preferences in absence of control through an other intelligence. Moral responsibility requires that a different assignment of moral weight in such a calculation would have resulted in a different course of action.
No. All uses of the phrase “free will” I ever encountered either described something real (in as far as abstract concepts can be real) or didn’t make enough sense to call an illusion (the overwhelming majority).
People usually just mean that they could choose differently (which is true enough for a sensible understanding of “could”), it’s only when they think about implications for other models for the outcome of that choice that the craziness shows up.
Usually I don’t. If I do it’s something like the capacity to follow whichever course of action is favored by a mental calculation of your preferences in absence of control through an other intelligence. Moral responsibility requires that a different assignment of moral weight in such a calculation would have resulted in a different course of action.
No. All uses of the phrase “free will” I ever encountered either described something real (in as far as abstract concepts can be real) or didn’t make enough sense to call an illusion (the overwhelming majority).
People usually just mean that they could choose differently (which is true enough for a sensible understanding of “could”), it’s only when they think about implications for other models for the outcome of that choice that the craziness shows up.