RE: Ehh... free will?
July 15, 2016 at 3:28 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2016 at 3:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Why not, we'd simply refer to ourselves as carbon based terrestrial life, and them as "x based extraterrestrial life". Life has a working definition, you have google. That's the trouble, free will has a mythology, a backstory. The two examples are not sufficiently related in context to set up an informative analogy. We can at least determine between "acting like it's alive" - say it's meets too few of the criteria, but enough to draw attention, and being alive "meets the criteria". With free will we have no yardstick, no coherent description of what it is or how it is. No procedure for devising a test and nothing to judge the results by.
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