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I'd define free will as used by the average person to mean the ability to make decisions that are based at least in part on something other than your makeup and

I'd define free will as used by the average person to mean the ability to make decisions that are based at least in part on something other than your makeup and environment.

davemp 8y ago
I'll go poll the world and get back to you to see if you align ;)
- naasking 8y ago
  Already been done. They do not: https://philpapers.org/rec/ANDWCI-3 https://philpapers.org/rec/ANDWCI-3
  - coldtea 8y ago
    Or so says a paper. Assuming no methodological errors and replication, in which Psychology (this being posted in "Philosophical Psychology" is a very bad culprit, and stats/polls even more so).
    - naasking 8y ago
      Let's be fair, it's more than one paper. That's just the latest in a whole series of papers empirically testing lay people's intuitions on this question (see the citations).