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I'd define free will as used by the average person to mean the ability to make decisions that are based at least in part on something other than your makeup and environment.


I'll go poll the world and get back to you to see if you align ;)


Already been done. They do not: https://philpapers.org/rec/ANDWCI-3


Or so says a paper. Assuming no methodological errors and replication, in which Psychology (this being posted in "Philosophical Psychology" is a very bad culprit, and stats/polls even more so).


Let's be fair, it's more than one paper. That's just the latest in a whole series of papers empirically testing lay people's intuitions on this question (see the citations).




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