[FRIAM] Free Will in the Atlantic

[Pieter Steenekamp]

>From a strict scientific perspective I accept that we don't have free will.
I don't argue that we have free will. I accept, and I quote from the
article quoted above:
"the brain is a physical system like any other, and we have no more will to
operate it in a particular way than we will our heart to beat". But...

>From how humans perceive our own actions, I assert that we do have free
will of "some sorts''. Similar to some computer programs that also have
free will of "some sorts". We all agree that AlphGo who beat Lee Sedol in
Go does not have free will, it did exactly what the computer code
instructed it to do, but it came up with creative play that the human
programmers did not even know about. This is in my view also "some sorts"
of free will.

On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 at 14:15, Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:

> Was it only 150 years ago when Charles Darwin first published 'On the
> Origin of Species' ? It feels longer. Interesting story from Stephen Cave
>
> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/
>
> -J.
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