the brain may as well be deterministic for all intents and purposes, yet it feels like we have free will. a possible reason is that our model of ourselves is not ourselves, so our decisions surprise our self model and feel like free will
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The attribution of behavior to one's own control system is an aspect of the model itself and can empirically go wrong. Being unable to predict your own behavior results from the nature of the model (you only need to control the parts that don't have a fixed outcome yet).
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How does this result in free will though? Isn't free will rather constructed through the attribution of predictable behavior to mechanisms in the control system that's selecting from alternative actions? Any unpredictability here would seem like a lapse of agency, not free will.
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How does predicting your own decisions differ from making them?
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