RE: Free Will, Free Won't?
September 17, 2013 at 7:27 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2013 at 7:27 pm by Zone.)
(September 17, 2013 at 7:10 pm)Texas Sailor Wrote:(September 17, 2013 at 6:31 pm)Zone Wrote: There is an easy test for free-will. Ask an intelligent being whether they think they have freewill and if they answer in the positive assume they do. If you asked an AI computer simulation it likely wouldn't understand the nature of the question, it's a bit like the Turing Test.
I'm not sure that's a very good way to discern truth. How can I know if the person I ask has any idea what they're talking about? If a person answers in the affirmative to the question, all that means is that they've comprehended the question
But that could be test as anything that doesn't have freewill may not understand what the concept of freewill means. So say an android or something would just stare at you blankly if they just followed their set programs and if we didn't have freewill then we wouldn't be discussing it because it wouldn't occur to us.
