On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> At least you now agree that the atoms in my body could be replaced and >> I would feel the same. What if the atoms were replaced by a person: >> would I still have free will or would I, as you claim for a computer, >> only have the will of the programmer? > > > What do you mean by replacing the atoms with a person? Like the China Brain? > Quintillions of human beings each pretending to act like hydrogen? That > wouldn't work, although you might be able to model chemistry that way. No, I meant if a person did the replacing of the atoms in my body. I would then have been created and programmed by that person. Would I still have free will? Would I think I had free will? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
