It comes through the ignorance of the grand scope of the environment you’re in.
If I did not know that I would get thrown in jail for smoking a blunt, I’d pop a blunt, that’s my own thought due to the vacuum of information I possess at that moment.
But you need to show it was both your own thought and a 'free' thought: not knowing some information doesn't actually mean the thought arose freely (I can say your thought that moment was still determined by your brain state the moment prior).
In the casual or weak sense, if I say I'm 'free to' or 'can' decide to destroy my laptop in the next minute, I mean given my limited knowledge of my brain and the environment right now, it's still a possibility this thought will pop up so far as I can tell.
But this is different from saying it's actually possible, that I actually can choose to punch a hole through my laptop. If we had full knowledge of my brain and the environment, we would be able to say with certainty whether this mental event would happen or not in the next minute, and there's (basically) no 'can' to speak of. The only actual 'can' or 'freedom' here would be the tiny amount of randomness within the laws of physics that we also have no control over.
You can have “free will”.
It comes through the ignorance of the grand scope of the environment you’re in.
If I did not know that I would get thrown in jail for smoking a blunt, I’d pop a blunt, that’s my own thought due to the vacuum of information I possess at that moment.
But you need to show it was both your own thought and a 'free' thought: not knowing some information doesn't actually mean the thought arose freely (I can say your thought that moment was still determined by your brain state the moment prior).
In the casual or weak sense, if I say I'm 'free to' or 'can' decide to destroy my laptop in the next minute, I mean given my limited knowledge of my brain and the environment right now, it's still a possibility this thought will pop up so far as I can tell.
But this is different from saying it's actually possible, that I actually can choose to punch a hole through my laptop. If we had full knowledge of my brain and the environment, we would be able to say with certainty whether this mental event would happen or not in the next minute, and there's (basically) no 'can' to speak of. The only actual 'can' or 'freedom' here would be the tiny amount of randomness within the laws of physics that we also have no control over.