[FRIAM] Free will—ghost in the machine or just clever wiring?

[Pieter Steenekamp]

Seth Lloyd’s Turing test for free will (
https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/lloyd/Turing_Test.pdf)
is to consciousness what EPR was to quantum physics: a challenge to the
theory's completeness. EPR said quantum weirdness must hide something
deeper; Bell said “let's test that”—and nature replied, “nope, it’s weird
all the way down.” Nobel Prize, case closed.

Lloyd asks: can we prove the mind is just machinery? His test says: build a
machine that behaves indistinguishably from a human and believes it has
free will. If you succeed—great. But failure proves nothing.

Unlike Bell’s inequality, this test can only confirm, never deny. No
ghost-busting here.

Until then? It’s speculation. The Standard Model explains almost
everything—except the quantum gremlins and how observation messes things
up. So maybe the mind still has an ace up its sleeve. Or a soul. Or a bug
in the code.
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