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> “everything is alive/sentient” Here is a six hour mathematically rigorous lecture by John Conway in which he argues either everything has free will or nothin
by Nbox9 6y ago
> “everything is alive/sentient”
Here is a six hour mathematically rigorous lecture by John Conway in which he argues either everything has free will or nothing has free will. I’m not trying to convince you everything is sentient, but to introduce some doubt in your black & white thinking. https://youtu.be/tmx2tpcdKZY https://youtu.be/tmx2tpcdKZY
- SAI_Peregrinus 6y agoThat's a very particular definition of "free will": it's either everything follows a deterministic time evolution (so its future behavior is dependent only on what happened in its past light-cone) or not. It's not the "intuitive" idea of "free will" most people are used to, though that isn't a well-defined concept.