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Academia Neuroscience and Brain Research

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Autopraxis: a biological model of limited free will

Academia Neuroscience and Brain Research September 28, 2026 Rob Dielenberg

Darwinian continuity and physical monism are traditionally thought to preclude free will, a conclusion reinforced by framing freedom as an instantaneous capacity to choose otherwise (the “branching problem”). This paper proposes an alternative: limited free will is the cumulative capacity of a physical system to modify the dispositions—the “bias function”—from which its future behavior emerges....