Jochen writes:
< Free will is according to James related to the question what are the forces that increase or influence our attention. If I understand him correctly this means to identify the forces that reduce our "entropy of thought", and thereby our freedom of choice, correct? For example in the case of addiction the entropy of thought is reduced to 0, because the addict is only able to think of one thing, the object of desire, and one action, to get more of it. In this sense free will would mean a high entropy of thought. > Consistent with a deterministic system. With lots of cores and memory, many hypotheses can be considered at once. Thus George has free will.
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