Hi, Jochen, I thought I would beard you in your den!
I think the question is whether to privilege the first person or the third person view. To anyone who privileges the third person view the question of whether animals have free will or humans don’t is just cartesian silliness. To an experience monist, such as myself, first- and third-person views are both presumptively valid, but prove themselves by their capacity to predict future experiences. If you think that you are better able to predict your own behavior than your partner — or your dog, for that matter — then the evidence is against you. First-person accounts of behavioral causality are notoriously shoddy. I feel that that was a bullet that both Ryle and Dennet were unable to bite. On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > FYI if someone is interested I've written a blog post about "Free Will". > It is based on stuff I have written here. Do people still write blog posts > in the age of all knowing AIs? I don't know. Will somebody read it? > Probably not. Well I feel I am getting old.. > > https://blog.cas-group.net/2025/02/free-will-is-the-prize-the-treasure-of-independent-thinking/ > > -J. > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > -- Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology Clark University [email protected] https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson
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