Actually, that article explains my views on free will very thoroughly. You just disagree with me, which is fine. I'm not saying I'm 100% certain that my views are correct. It's just what makes sense to me based on my own experiences plus what I have read and heard from others.

You raise a good question, though, about what a mind is. Is it thoughts? Or does it include the awareness of those thoughts too? When searching for the definition on Google, I found these two definitions:

1. the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought.

2. a person's ability to think and reason; the intellect.

I do not currently have access to the scientific data you request, as I am not a scientist, and I have other things I need to get done today.

At this moment, I don't think I have an answer to your question about how a mind changes another. But there's nothing I can do about that. I didn't choose not to be able to think of an answer to it.

You say that it's a common mistake to interpret free will to suit one's personal needs. So, that could be what you are doing too? It seems to be important to you for you to convince me that free will does exist, and it is important to me to convince you that it doesn't. So, it's the same for both of us. But that's just human nature anyway. It's just the way we are.

If it really is important to you to successfully counter my views on free will, feel free to respond to each of the points made in my longer article. Or don't, if you don't want to. It's your choice. Or is it? Pay close attention to what you decide to do, and why. Or don't, if you don't want to. Or do, even if you don't want to, just to be contrary.