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> the way your brain tricks you into thinking you make "free decisions"

It's my own experience that I have Free Will[1] without my brain tricking me. The idea of free will is not without controversy, though, and we could argue at length of whether it's truly free in the classical sense, or a mix of advice, persuasion, deliberation, and prohibition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will




and we could argue at length of whether it's truly free in the classical sense, or a mix of advice, persuasion, deliberation, and prohibition

No we couldn't because I don't entertain false choices. It's as deterministic as a game of billiards and you have no power to argue otherwise.


The idea that AI won't have free will, while the biological system that is you somehow does is quite odd. There's nothing about being a carbon-based life form that makes the laws of physics any less deterministic.




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