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What do you mean? I think "free will" is doing what you want to do; having control over your own actions and whatnot. I think we clearly have free will. Unless you get all philosophical about genes and whatnot. Such as, I do what I do because my genetic make-up causes my personality to be this way, but even then, your genes make up who you are, and your brain still works, and you can still tell yourself to do something or not. Maybe I don't make sense...
That's a meaningless declaration, as everything is subjective, just as it is objective.free will is subjective
If you more inclined to do something because of genetic make-up, you would have less will. Determinism goes a lot farther into why one doesn't have free will as well.
When telling yourself to do something or not, where is the will in to choice of doing something or not?
I think a better question is whether robots can have free will. Even with current technology, they consider possibilities, weigh the value of actions, and execute those actions they calculate will achieve the best outcome. They cannot step outside their programming, but we cannot step outside the physical condition of our brains, either.
Somewhere in the line of evolution the humans must have evolved that free will. I doubt they did it in a few dozen years. Don't think we're even close to the end of robots. We just begun.
I couldn't even tell the difference between your "free will" and mine.But in what sense is "free will" in humans different from "unfree will" in robots? How would you characterize the difference?
I couldn't even tell the difference between your "free will" and mine.
Regarding free will, the same applies.. God or no God.
This is not a story about God, this is a story about randomness..
Right. Free will is not random, but people often confuse free will with random behavior. We associate unpredictability with free will, but it is not only random systems that are unpredictable. Chaotic deterministic systems are also unpredictable. Nevertheless, people continue to think of unpredictability as a key factor in defining free will, and they think that robots can't have free will because they are fully determined by their programming (i.e. predictable). If we think of human choice as fully determined, but unpredictable (i.e. the product of a chaotic deterministic system), then there is no principled difference between humans and robots except one of unpredictability. Free will, in its conventional sense, is therefore compatible with determinism. The fact is that we can make predictions about how humans will behave, and that suggests that we understand at least some of the causes that motivate choices. Human will is fully determined but only partially predictable.
I would say...yes... But I think our will is or can be governed by rules, regulations and laws in your country/city/town.
Here's a question yall...How different is our will compared to any other animal?