Will and Uncertainty

Will consists in an effort that exceeds the given, with the outcome of the effort always indeterminable in advance. This indeterminability is usually glossed over by probabilistic expectation, without which efficient everyday experience would be difficult, and which is validated by regularity of outcome. Nevertheless, in principle, Will introduces irreducible uncertainty into Experience, thereby rendering the latter as fundamentally a process of ongoing trial-and-error, i. e. as an ongoing experiment. The etymological synonymy of 'experience' and 'experiment' has already been discussed.