Mental gymnastics was probably not the best choice for the wording. What I really meant is defining free will as something that is in a certain sense trivial. I

Mental gymnastics was probably not the best choice for the wording. What I really meant is defining free will as something that is in a certain sense trivial. If you want to call making choices according to your personal preferences free will, fine, but this is a triviality and we don't need to debate over this for centuries. And the next guy looks into the predictability of decisions and assigns free will to an entity if its future behavior can not be determined with certain resource constraints. Fine except that the term is now overloaded, you might have the first but not the second kind of free will and both properties are not well described by the term free will.