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Does consciousness imply free will? I don't see why it should.
by colanderman 4y ago
Does consciousness imply free will? I don't see why it should.
- snowwrestler 4y agoYou don’t need free will to have desires and act on them. I doubt many people freely choose to get hungry or thirsty. But they consciously recognize their own internal desires and apply their intelligence to satisfy them.
- colanderman 4y agoRobots which get "thirsty" for electricity and seek out a source for such have existed for decades: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/87819/50512799-MIT.pdf https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/87819/5051279... Even GPT-3, mechanistic as it is, has "goals" which differ from my own: I might want it to answer questions for me; it vehemently just wants to construct probable strings of tokens, which often do not answer my questions. There even exist AIs which have non-predetermined goals. Dwarves in Dwarf Fortress are an example of such. Human goals are just particularly rich in that, thanks to language and advanced reasoning, we can construct arbitrarily complex goals, and justify them in a rich manner. What do you see as the gap between such AIs which are programmed to act on goals (predetermined or not), and AIs with true free will?