Free will centers around the subjective experience of making a decision. Deterministic or not, my mind is making a selection from a limited number of choices. When people question whether or not a deterministic mind could be considered to be making choices, what they are usually really asking about is culpability. When something bad happens, the first question is, “Who is responsible?”
"Free will is the subjective experience of making a decision"
That's not the generally accepted definition. The problem of free will starts with the feeling of free will, but it's only a problem is to explain whether there is a real ability behind the feeling.
The problem is defining what a "real ability behind the feeling" would mean. In a deterministic universe, the real ability behind the feeling is ultimately just going to be some mechanism, which is never going to feel intuitively satisfying as an explanation for the source of free will.
What this is missing is the subjective point of view aspect. Anything can make a decision. Simple machines do it all the time. Free will requires a point of view evaluating the options.
It's either deterministic, or deterministic with small random quantum jumps. Neither of which leave much daylight for a non-mechanistic account of decision-making.
"Free will is the subjective experience of making a decision"
That's not the generally accepted definition. The problem of free will starts with the feeling of free will, but it's only a problem is to explain whether there is a real ability behind the feeling.
The problem is defining what a "real ability behind the feeling" would mean. In a deterministic universe, the real ability behind the feeling is ultimately just going to be some mechanism, which is never going to feel intuitively satisfying as an explanation for the source of free will.
What this is missing is the subjective point of view aspect. Anything can make a decision. Simple machines do it all the time. Free will requires a point of view evaluating the options.
"The problem is defining what a "real ability behind the feeling" would mean. In a deterministic universe"
It isn't, because the universe isn't known to be deterministic.
It's either deterministic, or deterministic with small random quantum jumps. Neither of which leave much daylight for a non-mechanistic account of decision-making.
Who said free willl had to be non mechanistic , when mechanism includes randomness? The compatibilist conception doesn't even require randomness.
Are you saying randomness makes it less mechanistic?