Originally Posted by DBT
The brain of a Butterfly can make decisions, a computer can select between a set of options based on the given criteria. Making decisions is not a matter of will.

Free will is 1) a capacity of the human intellect 2) to choose independently of natural, social, or divine restraints (different than coercion).

Look at 2) above. A computer is obviously restrained by the laws of physics. I would argue that a butterfly is similarly restrained by the laws of nature. People are not though their choices may be influenced by many things. We are not even restrained in our choices by a deity, heaven or hell, whichever you wish. Unless, of course, people are on par with butterflies.

The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.