@AndrewMurphie@indieweb.social

I see quite a few theories emerging lately that make no distinction between #structure and #system and this is just one of them.

Structures behave deterministically under the influence of natural #laws and are thus predictable, inherently purposeless, and controllable.

Systems, on the other side, besides being made of structures that must abide by those same natural laws, are also governed by arbitrary #rules that define their #purpose, either designed or evolved within a larger environment.

Dynamical systems (with memory) have in addition the ability to learn and modify those rules. How this happens can be influenced but not fully predicted or controlled by an external observer, especially for living systems.

It is this ability to resist outside control that I consider "*free will*".