Chapter 112: Free Will and Branching

Free will is neither illusion nor uncaused cause; it is branching in the category of feasible actions. The action category Act_C attaches to each decision context a structured space of alternatives, and the mind topos selects among them through its evaluative and self-modelling apparatus. Compatibilism is not a compromise but a structural consequence: determination by the agent’s reasons is the exercise of freedom. The chapter closes with a preview of the One Free Choice developed in Part XI.