title: Free will as relative freedom with conscious component.
abstract: The general notion of relative freedom is introduced. It is a kind of freedom that is observed everywhere in nature. In biology, incomplete knowledge is defined for all organisms. They cope with the problem by Popper's trial-and-error processes. One source of their success is the relative freedom of choice from the basic option ranges: mutations, motions and neuron connections. After the conjecture is adopted that communicability can be used as a criterion of consciousness, free will is defined as a conscious version of relative freedom. The resulting notion is logically self-consistent and it describes an observable phenomenon that agrees with our experience.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hájícek
mesh_terms: D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology; D005610:Freedom; D006801:Humans; D008128:Logic; D009039:Motion Perception; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D014836:Volition