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My philosophical take: the halting problem illustratres how free will can exist in a deterministic universe
by prmph 10y ago
My philosophical take: the halting problem illustratres how free will can exist in a deterministic universe
- datadata 10y agoThis is a really interesting comment, could you elaborate on it a bit more? Which part of a deterministic universe would the halting problem serve to enable free will? -The universe as a whole? -Any agent claiming to have free will? -Some physical process that couldn't be simulated faster by something else in the universe?
- Retra 10y agoFree will is just what it feels like to have a mind that can construct models of realities that are not fact. And you can model nondeterminism in a deterministic system just fine. So I would argue that it illustrates nothing of significance under either of those issues.
- prmph 10y agoHow do you model true non-determinism in a deterministic system? And if that can indeed be done, would that not support my original point?