Re:Consciousness is not computation
by anothernewdude on Monday June 27, 2022 @06:46AM
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Oxford:
axiomatic /ˌaksɪəˈmatɪk/
adjective: axiomatic
self-evident or unquestionable.
And you've devolved here into semantics. The point is that for you to even think about the subject, you must have free will. If you are not deciding to think about it, then you are not thinking about it.
Not really; I challenge you to find a dictionary that says the two terms are synonymous.
Originally an axiom was a proposition that was "self-evident". But there's a long history of people questioning "self-evident" propositions, happily for us.
There seems to be a colloquial usage of "axiom" to mean a proposition that someone doesn't want us to question. I deprecate that usage. For example, the Law of The Excluded Middle is an axiom, but it has often been questioned; ergo, it is not unquestionable.