[FRIAM] Free will part 20250223

[Nicholas Thompson]

Hi, Jochen,

I thought I would beard you in your den!

I think the question is whether to privilege the first person or the third
person view. To anyone who privileges the third person view the question of
whether animals have free will or humans don’t is just cartesian silliness.
To an experience monist, such as myself, first- and third-person views are
both presumptively valid, but prove themselves by their capacity to predict
future experiences. If you think that you are better able to predict your
own behavior than your partner — or your dog, for that matter — then the
evidence is against you. First-person accounts of behavioral causality are
notoriously shoddy. I feel that that was a bullet that both Ryle and Dennet
were unable to bite.




On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:

> FYI if someone is interested I've written a blog post about "Free Will".
> It is based on stuff I have written here. Do people still write blog posts
> in the age of all knowing AIs? I don't know. Will somebody read it?
> Probably not. Well I feel I am getting old..
>
> https://blog.cas-group.net/2025/02/free-will-is-the-prize-the-treasure-of-independent-thinking/
>
> -J.
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology
Clark University
nthompson at clarku.edu
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