• Singletona082@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Prove it.

    Or not. Once you invoke ‘there is no free will’ then you literally have stated that everything is determanistic meaning everything that will happen Has happened.

    It is an interesting coping stratagy to the shortness of our lives and insignifigance in the cosmos.

    • reiterationstation@lemm.ee
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      8 days ago

      Why does it have to be deterministic?

      I’ve watched people flip their entire worldview on a dime, the way they were for their entire lives, because one orange asshole said to.

      There is no free will. Everyone can be hacked and programmed.

      You are a product of everything that has been input into you. Tell me how the ai is all that different. The difference is only persistence at this point. Once that ai has long term memory it will act more human than most humans.

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        8 days ago

        How about: there’s no difference between actually free will and an infinite universe of infinite variables affecting your programming, resulting in a belief that you have free will. Heck, a couple million variables is more than plenty to confuddle these primate brains.

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          8 days ago

          Ok, but then you run into why does billions of vairables create free will in a human but not a computer? Does it create free will in a pig? A slug? A bacterium?

          • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            8 days ago

            Because billions is an absurd understatement, and computer have constrained problem spaces far less complex than even the most controlled life of a lab rat.

            And who the hell argues the animals don’t have free will? They don’t have full sapience, but they absolutely have will.

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              8 days ago

              So where does it end? Slugs, mites, krill, bacteria, viruses? How do you draw a line that says free will this side of the line, just mechanics and random chance this side of the line?

              I just dont find it a particularly useful concept.

    • Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee
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      8 days ago

      At the quantum level, there is true randomness. From there comes the understanding that one random fluctuation can change others and affect the future. There is no certainty of the future, our decisions have not been made. We have free will.

    • Arkouda@lemmy.ca
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      8 days ago

      Prove it.

      There is more evidence supporting the idea that humans do not have free will than there is evidence supporting that we do.