> My personal idea of free will requires an even higher level of independence than "unpredictable to humans and other physical beings". Not just must one's action be an action without a definite prior cause in the physical realm, but it must be partially independent of all higher realms, including the foreknowledge of God. I'm almost explicitly defining free will so as to be incompatible with perfect knowledge of past, present, and future.

I'm curious, then, do you believe in free will, grem? Your definition seems to imply that the actions of a being with free will would not need to have any direct antecedent. Do you think this sort of free will exists in our reality? If so, how do you think it works?

Stephen