RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 14, 2012 at 8:52 am
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2012 at 9:01 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Very simply Genk, you only need a half or full adder and you have a computer. You don't need the cpu, the ram, the rom, multiplexers or any circuit in between, nothing. What you're talking about are the varying degrees of complexity to a computer. Hell, you could just build a simple latch, a single bit memory cell with 1 input connected to two outputs (or itself and a reset line) and you have a computer with both function and memory. As such, your analogy has literally no bearing whatsoever on "I", or "the self", only degrees of complexity to "I" or "self". You don't even need a user...to have a computer. This whole thread has been a long list of non-starters, poor analogies, and redefinition. Perhaps my frustration with this isn't very difficult to understand? It's gone from "is there free will" to "I am not my brain, really really really, please believe me". If one has to argue against the mind being an effect of the brain before they can argue for a redefinition of free will, well, seems to me we're reaching for something because we very much want it, regardless of whether or not it's actually there.
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