BTW, as an aside, I was curious what my daughter thought about this subject. Iv'e never told her or taught her what I think, or what TO think about it.
So I asked her as best I could, and she thinks people are partly guided/caused, and partly have free-will. She thinks much like CL that advanced animals have more free-will than say, a fish or a worm, but all creatures with brains have some level of it. And she thinks Watson has the same amount of free-will as the humans and other advanced animals.
She just went on to explain that free-will is correlated with desire. She said, even though a jellyfish moves, it has no free-will, because it does not feel desire for things. It requires food and stuff, but is unaware of it (so here she's tying it to awareness, too), and she thinks animals like Orcas have free-will just like a person, because it feels a lot of emotion.
I asked if her if she thinks Watson has emotion, and she said yes. It desires to fulfill it's programming, so it does the best to come up with the best answers it can, and this is how the computer expresses it's free-will. (She's still telling me about what she thinks about queen bees vs drone bees, and a bunch of other specific animals). This seems to be something she's got a lot of ideas about!
Just sharing, I thought her thoughts were interesting on this topic, too.
So I asked her as best I could, and she thinks people are partly guided/caused, and partly have free-will. She thinks much like CL that advanced animals have more free-will than say, a fish or a worm, but all creatures with brains have some level of it. And she thinks Watson has the same amount of free-will as the humans and other advanced animals.
She just went on to explain that free-will is correlated with desire. She said, even though a jellyfish moves, it has no free-will, because it does not feel desire for things. It requires food and stuff, but is unaware of it (so here she's tying it to awareness, too), and she thinks animals like Orcas have free-will just like a person, because it feels a lot of emotion.
I asked if her if she thinks Watson has emotion, and she said yes. It desires to fulfill it's programming, so it does the best to come up with the best answers it can, and this is how the computer expresses it's free-will. (She's still telling me about what she thinks about queen bees vs drone bees, and a bunch of other specific animals). This seems to be something she's got a lot of ideas about!
Just sharing, I thought her thoughts were interesting on this topic, too.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
