(June 15, 2015 at 10:11 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I think AI computing allows the possibility of making choices which are not pre-programmed. In other words, the programmer has no way to know what the computer will choose to do. I wouldn't categorize it as free will either. But what about free will is free, and where does that freedom come from?
The programmer might not know because the computational task of predicting the output of some really complex code could be an impossibility. With unlimited time and resources, however, I'm almost certain the behavior could be mapped out.
So, I'd say rather than free will, we're just dealing with a lack of knowledge which looks a lot like what many call free will.
And the point at the end, what about free will is free...I think the idea is that there is no free will. We have what can exist in our universe, and it doesn't include this free will.
