Decision-making processes in nature, including in biological systems, operate through cause-and-effect mechanisms where an organism measures possible futures and selects outcomes, which can be called 'free will' though it is not free in the way it subjectively feels.
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“the brain is interacting with the exterior world and measuring the different outcomes of the different possible futures, and then ultimately making a decision. This is something that I think we can refer to as free will, and that what many people mean by free will.”
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