Re:There’s No Such Thing as Free Will
by mercer on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:28PM
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So basically it's still a 'pure' function in the end?
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Per the materialist/deterministic 'there is no free will' mental model, yes: the function taking the input stream is pure.
On the per-event basis, this model boils down to a 'function' evaluating each event with multiple outputs and inputs:
Inputs: the stimuli, mental state prior to stimuli
Outputs: your actions and resultant mental state
The output mental state is then the input for the next iteration/evaluation.