Interview with Scott Aaronson

Re:Interview with Scott Aaronson by foldr on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @11:04AM (#11572462)

I just don't see how. It seems like a fairly obvious point that the two systems would be indistinguishable from the outside.

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Re:Interview with Scott Aaronson by moultano on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @03:15PM (#11583630)

In that case, the pragmatists would say that the distinction isn't meaningful, that free will is a concept with no meaning, and end the debate there.

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Re:Interview with Scott Aaronson by foldr on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @06:25AM (#11619308)

I don't think it's plausible to maintain that the question of whether or not we have free will is "meaningless". Any criterion of meaningfulness that derives that conclusion is probably faulty.

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Re:Interview with Scott Aaronson by moultano on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @05:11PM (#11624273)

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatism/

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