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| - | Agency is the capacity of an agent to make choises and manipulate the external world accordingly. Harry G. Frankfurt has some [[freewill|interesting insights]] on whether this capacity may or might be free for different agents while presupposing the possibility of freedom of the will. | + | Agency is the capacity of an agent to make choices and manipulate the external world accordingly. Harry G. Frankfurt has some [[freewill|interesting insights]] on whether this capacity may or might be free for different agents while presupposing the possibility of freedom of the will. |
| The freedom of the will is quite interesting when one states that the world is casually closed and that everything is physical ([[materialism]]). For if [[causality|causality]] in its basic form is correct, then there should not be room for free will, and we have a deterministic and materialistic universe. | The freedom of the will is quite interesting when one states that the world is casually closed and that everything is physical ([[materialism]]). For if [[causality|causality]] in its basic form is correct, then there should not be room for free will, and we have a deterministic and materialistic universe. | ||
| - | But as should be clear to all, it is in the fringes of natures order, where logic and Gods patterns no longer can give an account for how the [[complex_systems|complexity]] and [[FuzzyLogic|fuzzy logic]] of order and chaos may or might evolve into wonders like an [[emcon|emerging consciousness]] with freedom of its will. | + | But as should be clear to all, it is in the fringes of natures order, where logic and the omnipresent patterns no longer can give an account for how the [[complex_systems|complexity]] and [[FuzzyLogic|fuzzy logic]] of order and chaos may or might evolve into wonders like an [[emcon|emerging consciousness]] with freedom of its will. |