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Re:Can AI Become Conscious? by mcguire on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:13PM (#23161262)
Since we've got yes and no, why not get the third answer:

The question is badly posed and therefore meaningless. If the universe is deterministic, then you cannot have free-will as it is normally considered. If it is non-deterministic, then (by Bell's Inequality, if you want to throw around big terms) it is random, which is also not free-will as it is normally considered. If you have free-will, as we all feel like we do, then the universe can be neither deterministic nor non-deterministic. Something is smelly in Denmark; the question itself does not make sense in it's current form.

I am not actually an analytic philosopher, I just emulate them as a hobby.

Re:Can AI Become Conscious? by tim333 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:11AM (#23166007)
I'll give a fourth one - it seems obvious to me the discussions conflate two things. Am I free to choose what to do - obviously yes. Is that choice determined by the state of the particles etc I'm made of - also obviously yes. Whether you call that free will or not is a question of what perspective you take on it. From a common sense legal perspective I'm making decisions of my own free will rather than someone holding a gun to my head. From the weird perspective / definition of some philosophers no. And they argue on and on instead of accepting it's different definitions applied to the same reality.