Free Will - Yes/No?

[Excited Penguin]

Yes, the difference being in one case you're deluded and in another you're more cognizant of what's actually going on.



Free will - the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion.

There's no such thing, and there's no other meaning these two words take that I know of.

One's own discretion. The first portion of that definition seems to treat necessity or fate as something opposed to one's discretion.

Here's another definition:

1. the apparent human ability to make choices that are not externally determined
   

I disagree this is delusion, though, because when you make a choice by your own will, one can reasonably consider this free will. It's only a delusion if you don't accept that who you are is not independent of your genes/environment. But no one here is saying that.

It's a definition, that doesn't mean every word describes something real. Go search what god means and you'll get my point.

You can't act at your own discretion if that means you're acting without the constraint of necessity or fate.

Your definition doesn't work either. There's no human ability to make choices that are not externally determined. That would mean living and acting in a void, which is impossible.