[boris]

"Not really. It's that your outputs are functions of your inputs, and something else. No one would deny out behavior is influenced by external inputs. You are making a ridiculous strawman with that statement."

OK, what 'something else'? It cannot be an "input" or it would be, well, an input. If it is not an input, how does it influence your behavior?

The Strawman of Oz awaits an answer.

--Boris

[xm177e2]

OK, what 'something else'? It cannot be an "input" or it would be, well, an input. If it is not an input, how does it influence your behavior?

That would be the mechanism of "free will" processing input and returning output. We can't see how it works because it's within the "black box" that is the human mind.