Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?

[henryp]

I think that this is a grossly naive and hopeful expectation both of the computer, and people. 

The notion that people would abandon or be disappointed by their ideas of the uniqueness of consciousness or mind, that AI would not be a seperate category, ignores that people already make those arguments.  That even if we achieved AI (and assuming this was a way to do it) they would still just be machines in motion..which is different, somehow, than our own minds or consciousness.  Similarly, the idea that a computer would demonstrate mind with such an algorithm is strange on it;s face.  Presuming that ants do it this way, we do not see the colony as having mind, and so if the computer did it that way..we would think what?  Presuming that the algorithm we use -is human- than the machine is just "pretending".  On and on it goes.

I think an interesting twist on whether AI can simulate the Human Mind, is the idea that the humans are just AI to begin with.


There's a lot of semantics involved with that statement of course, but the idea that the biological mass we call a Human is just "pretending" seems like a possibility.