Free will, Grice, and flies

Or, the Gricean Movement

by JLS
for the GC

I would think that 'move' is the important notion (or one of the important notions) in (some of the) discussion concerning free-will. A reference to flies (Drosophila melanogaster) in a discussion of 'free will in animals' at www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11998687 lead me to the source which includes some of this references below. Note that 'motus' is operant in our talk of 'motive'.

I note that while 'free will' occurs in the bbc site (above) it does not, qua collocation, occur in the source. Things like "freely moving animals" do occur:

"Conventional experiments with freely moving animals could never have shown this simple relationship. Indeed, in free flight, changes in environmental feedback did not significantly alter the search
characteristics ... The discovery of near-optimal built-in search strategies enables us now to investigate the brain mechanisms behind optimal foraging in a genetically tractable model organism.
Interestingly, these strategies are not random but nevertheless indeterminate"

I select some of the references below. I was pleased to read the refs. to M. Heisenberg.

--- JLS

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