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Free will

Okay so, let me get the story straight. First of all, what is free will? Cause if we don't come to a global definition of it, the possible explanations that might come afterwards won't lead to a solution. Free will, as it seems to me, is the ability to choose. Being able to make decisions for ourselves. Now, on a neural network level, this might rise some issues. Psychology of memory has proven that all the information we store has a property called 'weight', through which a memory (an object, a person, a fact) will be more relevant the more it is used and reinforced. This way, with the simple task 'think of someone you know in your life', there is this first person that will pop up in your mind and the reason for it to be there might be due to its recent use, to its relevance, or many more reasons. But our consciousness didn't necessarily choose that one person as the one we 'consciously' want to think of on the first place. In a similar way, w