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Free will is any random process with an asymptotically infinite number of degrees of freedom, by definition. Are humans such a process? Who knows, but attempt
by otabdeveloper4 3y ago
Free will is any random process with an asymptotically infinite number of degrees of freedom, by definition.
Are humans such a process?
Who knows, but attempts to model individual humans have certainly failed before. (We need lots of humans in aggregate to successfully model them, once the central limit theorem starts working.)
- vidarh 3y agoI challenge you to get any more than a single digit percent of any representative sample of people to agree a random process is free will by definition. It's one of exceedingly few definitions I've heard in decades of discussing the subject that I'll agree doesn't immediately make free will impossible, but at the same time it's one that too me at least exemplifies something that is neither free nor will.
- otabdeveloper4 3y agoIf you want to talk about "free will" rigorously, you need to consider the human being as a random process.
- vidarh 3y agoNo, I don't. I can reject the notion of free will on the basis that I would never consider a "random process" either "free" nor an expression of "will".