Abstract The aim of this paper is to establish that free agency, which is a capacity of many animals including human beings, is compatible with indeterminism: an indeterministic world allows for the existence of free agency. The question of the compatibility of free agency and indeterminism is less discussed than its mirror image, the question of the compatibility of free agency and determinism. It is, however, of great importance for our self‐conception as free agents in our (arguably) indeterministic world. We begin by explicating the notions of indeterminism and free agency and by clarifying the interrelation of free agency and the human‐specific notion of free will. We then situate our claim of the compatibility of free agency and indeterminism precisely in the landscape of the current debate on freedom and determinism, exposing an unhappy asymmetry in that debate. Then we proceed to make our case by describing the mathematically precise, physically motivated model of projective simulation, which employs indeterminism as a central resource for agency modeling. We argue that an indeterministic process of deliberation modeled by the dynamics of projective simulation can exemplify free agency under indeterminism, thereby establishing our compatibility claim: Free agency can develop and thrive in an indeterministic world.

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非决定论下自由代理的随机过程模型

摘要 本文的目的是确定自由代理（包括人类在内的许多动物的能力）与非决定论兼容：非决定论世界允许存在自由代理。自由代理和非决定论的兼容性问题比它的镜像，即自由代理和决定论的兼容性问题讨论得少。然而，对于我们在我们（可以说是）不确定的世界中作为自由行动者的自我概念来说，这是非常重要的。我们首先解释非决定论和自由代理的概念，并澄清自由代理和人类特定的自由意志概念之间的相互关系。然后，我们将我们关于自由代理和非决定论兼容的主张准确地置于当前关于自由和决定论的辩论中，暴露了这场辩论中令人不快的不对称。然后，我们通过描述投影模拟的数学精确、物理动机模型来继续说明我们的案例，该模型采用不确定性作为代理建模的核心资源。我们认为，由投射模拟动力学建模的非确定性审议过程可以例证不确定性下的自由代理，从而建立我们的兼容性主张：自由代理可以在不确定的世界中发展和繁荣。