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Are you the thing that decides between courses of action you will take given a situation? If you are, then you have free will. If you aren't then you don't. In
by alienicecream 3y ago
Are you the thing that decides between courses of action you will take given a situation? If you are, then you have free will. If you aren't then you don't. In practice, there is no one who doesn't identify with it, except maybe schizophrenics. So, the choice is yours.
- criddell 3y agoI think the argument revolves around whether choices are real or just what you experience. If I build a rock-paper-scissors playing robot that has total access to your brain, body, and environment, do you think it would be possible for it to make one that never loses? I think it's probably possible because it can detect your intention to play scissors and in the milliseconds it takes for you to deploy them, it can deploy rock. Through constant improvements, maybe I could increase detection time from milliseconds to seconds. What if I could get it up to a day? If I build a rock-paper-scissors robot that could beat you 100% of the time using a list printed out the day before, what would that mean? Your experience is still that you made a choice but that choice was caused by everything that lead up to the moment you play scissors.