Question

What is Free Will?

Answer 1

The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion.

Free will is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action. It is closely linked to the concepts

of responsibility, praise, guilt, sin, and other judgments which apply only to actions that are freely chosen. It is also

connected with the concepts of advice, persuasion and prohibition. Traditionally, only actions that are freely willed

are seen as deserving credit or blame. There are numerous different concerns about threats to the possibility of free

will, varying by how exactly it is conceived, which is a matter of some debate.