Answer by tkruse for Is the question of Identity more difficult than the...
Reductionist approaches to free will do not depend on a definition of human psychological identity, and those are typically compatibilist approaches. Whichever smallest part of a physical or digital...
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That’s a great question! Here is one way to approach it: think machine learning AI, like ChatGPT, or DeepMind’s AlphaZero, the greatest chess player ever. Do they have agency? I think the answer has to...
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The "I", the "self", or the "agent" is the conscious part of the organism which also experiences the acts of will in the sensory-perceptions.Perceptual Control Theory (PCT)The main idea in PCT is that...
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The experience of free will certainly exists. That is, whatever is happening when a decision is made by a conscious agent, the agent experiences feelings like indecision, fear, or desire feeding into a...
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Short answerThe short answer is a definitive "YES"!!!!Free will has three fairly well defined answers debated in philosophic circles:Incompatible determinism (we have no free will)Compatibilist...
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