(February 9, 2012 at 3:34 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You're still talking about more or less of this or that before you consider something to have "free will", Shells criticism applies. Essentially, this is saying "the more human and the less like an animal (what does that even mean?) the closer to free will. Well, again, anthropic bias.
No. I'm saying that the more conceptually capable a consciousness is, the closer to free will it is. I cannot help it if humans happen to be on the top of the scale.