Thought Provoker
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Joined: April 2007
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Hi Tom,
Ok, I'll bite.
What would constitute evidence of free will?
The ability to think and act illogically?
An aversion to constantly responding the same way to the same stimulus and acting on it? (getting out of the rut)
An inability to falsify the hypothesis with even a simple example of Artificial Intelligence?
I suspect you are requesting evidence of a mechanism.
Predictably, I am going to suggest evidence exists for macro expressions of quantum effects in living entities.
Furthermore, I suggest that Quantum Mechanics is the only known mechanism where two mutually exclusive "realities" can exist at the same time (quantum superposition).
If Free Will exists, it has to be able to be illogical, otherwise it would be deterministic and algorithmic and, therefore, not "free".
I suggest there is plenty of evidence of life thinking and acting illogically. Quantum Physics would be the obvious source for non-deterministic yet non-random effects.
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