Free will, morality and crime

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Ramo


My definition is that the actions of a person with free will are dependent upon only his physical state. In other words, there are no super-natural influences this person's actions.

I agree with that definition, but not the in other words bit. One could have free will without supernatural influence.* Its a bit like defining the difference between a green car and a green bicycle by saying that one of them is green.


* I don't know how, but I wouldn't discount a pardigm shift in the current scientific world view. After all we went from purely predeterminism worldview in the C19th to a probability worldview in the C20th.