On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:34 PM, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > It > [free will] > means a decision process > Like the internal mechanism of a cuckoo clock deciding to send it's little bird out every hour. But, I hear you say, the clock didn't make a decision. What is a decision? A choice made of your own free will. And what is free will? The ability to make a choice. And round and round we go. > > > leading to action which is not predictable > Like a roulette wheel or a radioactive ato m . > > and is difficult to influence by external motivations, > There is a technical term for a being with that property, its called "stupid". A beings actions by definition take place in the external world, if the beings planned actions are not changed by new information about that external world coming to it through its sense organs then that being is stupid. > > > so that it shows consistency of purpose and intelligence in achieving it. > Like the computer program AlphaGo showed 2 months ago. So can a robot have free will? I said it before I'll say it again, tell me what the hell "free will" is suposed to mean and I'll tell you if a robot can have free will. > > P.S. robots can have it. Maybe, it depends on what "it" is. John K Clark > > > Brent > P.S. robots can have it. > > -- > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
