ANNOTATION:
freedom as the measure of accessible variety

A concept of freedom as the measure of accessible variety in 
some space of states is slightly better in the context 
of cybernetics then a concept of «free will», is it? 

In this case we can consider local freedom as a variety of 
accessible directions of moving and global freedom as variety of 
accessible ways and aims. If we increase dimension of our space 
by adding time and money axis of coordinates, we’ll be able 
consider getting aims at a given time and at a given cost. 
Then we may consider partners as factor of freedom, ways 
of getting freedom, freedom of the first and second order and 
so on. 

In this case, also, freedom may be considered even in 
deterministic picture of the world, for example in mechanics. 

A «free will» only reflects our opinion about real freedom, 
our preferences and choices. It is a subject for psychologist 
but not for cybernetics. 

February 22 1997