• Botzo@lemmy.world
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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?

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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.