(April 17, 2016 at 6:41 am)RozKek Wrote:(April 16, 2016 at 11:03 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I some have a bad definition of "will" in mind. It seems they think "will" means "the Holy power of God to do whatever you want." That's not right. Will is the desire of the thinking agent to use its influence on the environment with a goal in mind. Free will is the ability of that thinking agent to act without an external compulsion, i.e. that one isn't a marionette.
So in the case of drug use, a person has the desire to do a drug, and acts (or occasionally chooses not to) to procure and use it. Freely.
Yes. I was just adressing 100% complete free will independent of any variables
Which is an oxymoron. Because a will, by definition, is dependent on the nature of the person possessing the will.
So 100% free will would be more meaningful if understood as will that is free in the sense that we normally understand free to be (i.e., free from coercion).
For some reason, and I was guilty of this myself not too long ago, once we think about free will, our idea of free shifts all of a sudden to free from anything when we normally don't think of free that way in everyday conversation.
