(April 14, 2015 at 4:11 pm)wallym Wrote: I make an app that tells me what I should wear. Tomorrow it's going to rain, so it'll tell me to wear galoshes.Rather than free will. 'adaptive will'?
That conclusion is 'predetermined', but if I don't run the app, I won't clean my galoshes in preparation for tomorrow, and all the kids will pick on me.
I believe analyzing the question of free will is running the app. Knowing that I have no say in the conclusions I'm drawing doesn't change the fact that my subconscious may draw new "better" conclusions that lead to different "better" behavior. And if it does, then it can output that information so that others will input it, and possibly adapt the 'better' behavior.
The carrot possibly being a positive stimuli associated with these things happening.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
