The experiments mentioned earlier indicate that decisions are made prior to the consciousness being aware of them. The following statement from the computer analogy however still holds true regardless.
If, for the sake of argument, the computer was right with respect to it possessing free will, then that free agency can neither be sourced by the computers cognitive self, nor it's actual self, since the computer is a machine and therefore bound to it's own mechanical nature and programming. The only other logical conclusion is that the computer was wrong about possessing the capacity for free will.
If, for the sake of argument, the computer was right with respect to it possessing free will, then that free agency can neither be sourced by the computers cognitive self, nor it's actual self, since the computer is a machine and therefore bound to it's own mechanical nature and programming. The only other logical conclusion is that the computer was wrong about possessing the capacity for free will.
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