RE: If free will was not real
August 20, 2016 at 10:23 am
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2016 at 10:26 am by bennyboy.)
(August 20, 2016 at 9:38 am)RozKek Wrote:(August 20, 2016 at 9:32 am)bennyboy Wrote: You are trying to equivocate between agent and not-agent. The Rhythm algorithm IS YOU, and it is free to respond however it wants to the environment. That you now call it the "Rhythm algorithm" and not just "me, doing stuff I like to do," is never ever going to happen outside the confines of this kind of debate, methinks.
No, how it responds to the environment is already determined, and it isn't trivial.
It is responding according to its nature without impediment, based on its intent and its desire to express that intent. That's free will.