You argue "free will is a pattern, a relentless stubbornness in doing". It fits
to Robert Sapolsky who says it is all wired and (pre-)determined and there is
no free will. And to Schopenhauer's pessimistic view "A man can do what he
wants, but not want what he wants" ("Der Mensch kann tun, was er will, aber er
kann nicht wollen, was er will")To me it looks like free will is the opposite:
we are the only animals which have the ability to break the patterns that
govern our behavior. You have the freedom to choose what you want to be on fire
about - at least in principlehttps://youtu.be/4vtVOJB2r4QJ.
-------- Original message --------From: Nicholas Thompson
<thompnicks...@gmail.com> Date: 6/10/25 1:47 AM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday
Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re:
[FRIAM] Free will—ghost in the machine or just clever wiring? I am
overwhelmingly happy to take a position on free will for Marcus:You don’t have
it, I don’t have it. George doesn’t have it. Will is not the sort of thing that
can be had. It is a pattern, a relentless stubbornness in doing.Sent from my
Dumb PhoneOn Jun 9, 2025, at 2:36 PM, steve smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote:On
6/9/25 12:25 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:Why do you call ChatGPT George? I must have
missed it. Or who was George?We have a bar named George R in Berlin by the way,
in the quarter where I live. It is named after George Remus, an American
bootlegger during the Prohibition
erahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Remussomeone might add an extra R in
homage to our own George R.R. (Martin)?I'm surprised the "George" reference
slipped by you, I don't know if it was Stephen or Nick who first started making
the reference to GPT (any version) in that mode, but it was a variant on
another personal name I think Stephen used for a while with "Gupta" as the
surname? I think it was intended to suggest a serious collaborator, but
somehow (d)evolved to George? If I weren't so lazy, I'd go dig through the
archives... I think someone with a higher fidelity memory or implicated in that
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