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Re:The end of AI winter? by eru on Friday October 02, 2009 @09:22AM (#856952)
Would a good Pseudo-Random number generator satisfy your definition?

(By the way, humans, when asked directly for random numbers, are terrible at the task.)

Re:The end of AI winter? by randallsquared on Friday October 02, 2009 @11:49AM (#857288)
Well, it satisfies the "free" part, but probably not the "will" part, which implies reasons for actions. I'm not actually sure humans have free will under my definition, but I think we probably do. It could be that some algorithm that's much simpler than an actual human could predict in detail what a given human will do without simulation, in which case I'd be forced to admit that humans don't have free will by my definition.