Natural decision-making processes exist even in simple organisms like pea tendrils, which detect proximity to branches and adjust growth direction accordingly—this is a cause-and-effect process that we would not normally call free will.
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“If you look at something like a pea tendril, when it senses that it's close to a branch that it can wrap itself around, it starts growing more quickly in that direction, and then it changes the growth, so that it wraps itself around a branch.”
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