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Re:There’s No Such Thing as Free Will by mercer on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:28PM (#11740269)
So basically it's still a 'pure' function in the end?
Re:There’s No Such Thing as Free Will by pbh101 on Friday May 20, 2016 @03:09PM (#11740577)
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.