I like that analogy. It helps make it clear that we may have a “free will of the gaps”, phrase borrowed from “god of the gaps”. What we call free will, or a claimed ability to choose arbitrarily, may be an incomplete understanding of the input factors determine our subsequent behavior and experience of that behavior. The chess-playing algorithm you describe also seems analogous to a billiard ball, bouncing around a table due to prior and current conditions. The danger in calling it non-illusory choice (in chess playing algorithms or in humans) is that that word use may play to our cognitive biases, like calling rain “god tears” or cancer “wrongdoing punishment”.
I like that analogy. It helps make it clear that we may have a “free will of the gaps”, phrase borrowed from “god of the gaps”. What we call free will, or a claimed ability to choose arbitrarily, may be an incomplete understanding of the input factors determine our subsequent behavior and experience of that behavior. The chess-playing algorithm you describe also seems analogous to a billiard ball, bouncing around a table due to prior and current conditions. The danger in calling it non-illusory choice (in chess playing algorithms or in humans) is that that word use may play to our cognitive biases, like calling rain “god tears” or cancer “wrongdoing punishment”.
What we call FW may also be a correct understanding of a real mechanism. You are priviledging one hypothesis.