Do you believe in the existence of free will, and what does it consist of?

Thomas Campbell holds the possibility that free will can be taken away from
an individual, which then becomes "retired", stored away in a box in the larger
Consciousness memory, like a piece of Data on a HD.

Full source is in this link -> here, and the quote:

"...sometimes if a particular individual personality is unproductive it will be retired (absorbed) and
perhaps replaced with something more effective. However, that individual (as an very accurate statistical
model -- i.e., an assemblage of all the information that defined that individual personality along with
probability information) will still be present in the historical database and is fully accessible there - it's
just that new data will not be generated or updated to that personality file. That "retired" individual
personality could always be given a free will again and reconstituted as an active unit -- they are fully
defined in the database. Bottom line: If you want maintain the privilege of exercising free will, it would
be a good idea to exercise it effectively."

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I also include what I saw in PE-Queries8 ->
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Monroe asks: "If you remove 'free will', where does it go?"

I wonder to myself, if free will is something which can be removed or
put back, what is it made of? A different substance than Consciousness?

My next thought is, why do he/they ask me this questions. I wait a moment.
There is a pause. Then I get a faint message: "Remember, there are
others. It's not for you alone."


Symbolic removal of a piece of free will (the blue cube) turns a being into a robot.


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A kingdom for your thoughts. :)