Free Will

Free will is adaptive participation in constraint that an agent can navigate. Free will is not an exemption from causation. It is the capacity of an agent, as a self-reinforcing pattern in infinite change, to model the things around it. The same capacity examines options and gives direction to its own transformation. Free will emerges because agents are not passive objects that external forces move. Agents are active patterns that give new shape to the flow that they are part of. Without free will, responsibility, consent, and the Golden Rule lose all meaning.