On 6/4/2012 10:07 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 meekerdb <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> You're hung up on the idea that purposeful action must be predictable.
Apparently
you never studied game theory.
I'm no world class expert but I've taken several college courses on game theory and I
know enough to understand that there has been no difficulty in incorporating the ideas
of that discipline into computer programs, indeed many recent advances in game theory
have come from the results of computer experiments.
And so you know that pursuant to the purpose of winning a game it may be useful to make a
random choice.
So are computers purposeful?
It depends on their program. Deep Blue purposefully acted to win chess games. Spirit and
Opportunity purposely explored parts of Mars.
Do computers have this thing you call "free will"? If not why not.
Depends on what you mean by "free will". I think that with certain AI programming a
computer could have the so called "feeling of free will", i.e. it could infer that it made
a choice that was purposeful but not determined (even in cases where it was determined).
If it were equipped to act it could act free of coercion.
Brent
John K Clark
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