RE: Is free will real?
December 27, 2014 at 9:45 pm
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2014 at 9:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
In a computational system - some assumptions are useful for doing work...even if they aren't accurate to any exterior standard - and especially when there is no requirement that they be accurate. As human beings, we find ourselves in both positions (particularly with regards to a wide range of concepts like love, beauty, free will etc). If we were computational systems, it would be trivially to explain the persistence of an "inaccurate" assumption. Not much of an elephant to me - but the manner in which we attempt to explain this (and things on the periphery) is so different that we're bound to run into things that would be a problem for one manner of explanation that are not for another.
However, could such knowledge guide our "decision-making"? Sure. It could, just as one example, provide the metrics by which a reasonable expectation of success in rehabilitation is achieved. If we're essentially "programmed items" - then knowledge of how and by what would be immensely useful (and already seems to be useful to us....with what little we know).
However, could such knowledge guide our "decision-making"? Sure. It could, just as one example, provide the metrics by which a reasonable expectation of success in rehabilitation is achieved. If we're essentially "programmed items" - then knowledge of how and by what would be immensely useful (and already seems to be useful to us....with what little we know).
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