[FRIAM] Free Will in the Atlantic

[Marcus Daniels]

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.02019.pdf


On Apr 8, 2021, at 9:15 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, I tend to agree. The default position is "no such thing" and the burden is on those making a positive claim. I feel that way about actual infinity, moral intuitionism, natural law, etc. as well. Appeals to common sense and pragmatism are the most suspect, but often the most useful.

On 4/8/21 8:41 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
It could also be chaotic, or, like a conjugate gradient optimization working in high dimensionality and finite precision, apt to stumble across new subspaces by accident, even though it is just being greedy.   The apparent randomness just comes from evaluating a function against large input vectors that have both known and (mostly) unknown values.   How one could possibly tease out subtle symmetry breaking roles in such a cacophony is unclear to me.   That cacophony could give the appearance of freedom, which makes me suspicious.


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