Your success isn’t down to free will – luck determines everything

Re:Your success isn’t down to free will – luck determines ev... by collyw on Monday April 30, 2018 @12:08PM (#16959774)

Consciousness isn't something you observe, its something you experience and physics so far has no explanation for it. Buddhism (from my limited reading on it) seems a lot closer to the answers than western science.

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Re:Your success isn’t down to free will – luck determines ev... by lostmsu on Monday April 30, 2018 @12:50PM (#16960168)

Sounds like BS. Of course you indirectly observe consciousness, and ML and neural nets in particular are pretty good rough models of it.

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Re:Your success isn’t down to free will – luck determines ev... by jacquesm on Monday April 30, 2018 @01:17PM (#16960394)

> ML and neural nets in particular are pretty good rough models of it.

No they're not, they are not even close. They are only good rough models of the brain if you want to look at the brain in the most over-simplified way. I blame the 'blue brain' project for myths like these.

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Re:Your success isn’t down to free will – luck determines ev... by lostmsu on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @10:54AM (#16967479)

They are definitely better, than parent's karma model.

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Re:Your success isn’t down to free will – luck determines ev... by collyw on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @05:44AM (#16975390)

Where did I mention karma?

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