Year: 2008
Type: preprint
Abstract: . If our mind is just an algorithm running on a flesh hardware, then it seems that there is no place for the free-will. An algorithm decides everything based on deterministic computations, or on random inputs, but neither inevitability nor pure hazard is free choice. Hopefully, some day, Science will be able to understand, monitor and simulate all the mind processes. Even then, it will still be a possibility for the free-will to exist, based on the convergence of the initial data. I propose a crucial experiment to test this hypothesis. Contents 1. Is there a ghost in the machine? 1 2. Minds in a physical world 2 3. The problem of free-will 3 3.1. What do we think we have, and a machine cannot have? 3
Author: Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica
Language: English
Topic: Free Will and Agency
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7099634079