On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 08:03:31AM -0600, Jason Resch wrote: > > Russell, > > Thanks for your answer. But I am having trouble seeing the link > between doing something stupid and randomness. Are you implying > randomness is necessary for stupidity or making errors?
How do you choose an irrational action except by reference to something random or pseudo-random? There is a special case where binary choices are involved of being antirational, ie always choosing the opposite of what a rational player would do. But the antirational strategy has no evolutionary advantage, nor is it free. > > > > > > >But in any case, we do not live in a deterministic world (its true > >that we live in a deterministic multiverse, but the individual worlds > >are not), so we have genuine randomness to exploit for free will, > >creativity and so on. > > Could an uploaded brain running on a deterministic computer act > irrationally or creatively? (assuming it's entire source code was > open source and it had no access to enviromental randomness) > As mentioned in previous post by a number of people, it is entirely possible for deterministic processes to be irrational. Re the creativity question - it is still an open problem, ISTM. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
