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instead of telling me what to do, i'd much rather google helped me make informed choices about what to do.
by dododo 16y ago
instead of telling me what to do, i'd much rather google helped me make informed choices about what to do.
- derefr 16y agoYour basic disgust at the concept sounds the standard distaste people have upon learning of the Compatibilist formulation of free will[1]. In "telling you what to do," Google would just be acting as an extension of your will—accessing all the same information you would access, and making all the same choices the same way you would make them. Just because the choices of what to do would come from the external world (and thus be determined) rather than from your mind (and thus "feel" more like you are in control of them) is no reason to reject those choices: they are still yours, even if they are determined. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism_and_incompatibilism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism_and_incompatibili...