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Free will is defined as being able to make your own decisions free from any influence but your own consciousness.
How would that be possible? Wouldn't you need to remove all input? Yet even the removal of input is input. IMO it is nonsensical to describe a material entity functioning in a non-material manner. It's a paradoxical notion that only arises if you suppose a dualist nature of mind, of which we have no evidence.
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I can agree with that. However, I don't think the statement is very useful. That is, it doesn't prove a corollary, i.e. Laplace's demon.