The difficulty of self-modeling explains why humans feel like they have free will.

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Reframing free will as the gap between the self-model and its actions.

What exactly is free will, and do humans have it? This is one of the main metaphysical problems in Western philosophy, which has been debated for at least two millennia. There are many answers, which have changed in popularity over time. Many hold that God granted us the fundamental freedom to choose our actions, even knowing that some of us might choose badly. Others argue that the probabilities of all events, including human actions, are determined by the laws of Nature; and therefore humans cannot be fundamentally free. None of these explain why free will is such a persistent question.…

The difficulty of self-modeling explains why humans feel like they have free will.

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