User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-24955665-20160525215904/@comment-4867780-20160525220426

Freedom is always relative, as is everything else. Just because something isn't absolute doesn't mean it isn't real.

"While all choices are conditionned, the ability to decide for oneself is irreplaceable."

This quote sums it up pretty well. He understands there are tons of influencing factors at play in every decision, what he defines as free-will is the ability to "decide for oneself", is other words coercition-free decision-making.

Lawrence is very attached to his self-defining humanity, so he programmed his abilities via Mindshifting to primarily operate on a subconscious level, executing commands and answering inquiries while sparing him the burden of humanity-unfriendy and more generality unwanted knowledge.

It is notably emphasized in the last paragraph of the "Selforge Possibility Matrix" :

"Like all Selforge technologies, it mostly operates on an autonomous subconscious level, allowing optimal real-time efficiency in all things without the inconvenience of invasive monitoring or undesired nigh-omniscience."