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Free will and degrees of freedom
" When you talk about degrees of freedom my arms, my wrist on my shoulder, my elbow, those joints, there's three degrees of freedom right, there are in control theory, it's all about how you control the degrees of freedom. And if we look around the world, we can see that some things have basically no degrees of freedom that rock over there. And some things like you and me have uncountable many degrees of freedom because of the versatility of our minds, the capacity that we we can be moved by reasons on any topic at all. This gives us a complexity from the point of view of control theory, which is completely absent in any other creature. And that kind of freedom is actually I claim at the heart of our understanding of free will because it's that complexity, which is not just complexity, but it's the competence to control that complexity. " source: video

From: Making Sense with Sam Harris #39 - Free Will Revisited (with Daniel Dennett)

His argument makes a lot of sense to me. Free will is shades of gray and *not* black and white matter (you either have it or not). There are degrees to free will and we all get to decide that actually (with our thoughts and actions).