free-willed

To punish free-willed Ukrainians, a jilted Russian President Vladimir Putin responded by partitioning their nation, annexing Crimea and staging a de facto occupation of the eastern Donbas region.

In this context, a free-willed choice would be an undetermined one.

This is a simple but important point, for we often think—incoherently—of free-willed choices as neither determined nor random.

But these unstable cascades are eye-opening when documented in systems of free-willed people, where they have major impacts on people’s lives.

“A lot of adult, strong-minded, free-willed women made decisions for their own lives.”