[FRIAM] alternative response

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

It was once said that nuns were the free-est of all humans because they
never did anything out of habit.  

Freedom from what?  Webster says "spontaneous".  Like most dictionary
definitions, it just postpones the problem. 

Nick 

Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen?C
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 6:46 PM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] alternative response

Well, you only said you could write an ABM. You didn't mention
"conventionally call a serial computer". Given where you work, you might
have been hypothesizing that you could write an ABM on some other kind of
computer. But whatever, I already agreed that it wouldn't. I'll repeat that
what's more interesting is whether it would *look* like it did ... whether
it could *simulate* free will, which is the topic at hand.

Again, I'm not talking about a different concept. I'm talking about this:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freewill


On 6/15/20 5:40 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Anyone that says an ABM can display Free Will, running on what we
conventionally call a serial computer, is certainly talking about a
different concept.


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