Re: Can a Robot Have Free Will?

2018-02-20 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 9:00 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: > ​> ​ > So where's you (non-snarky) answer? > That depends on what the question is. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and sto

Re: Can a Robot Have Free Will?

2018-02-20 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/20/2018 9:31 AM, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:34 PM, Brent Meeker >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. 

Re: Can a Robot Have Free Will?

2018-02-20 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > ​> ​ > To be self-determined you need a representation of the self > That's is exactly how AlphaGo became the best GO player on this planet. When it was learning It was playing against itself, that is to so after it made a move it in effec

Re: Can a Robot Have Free Will?

2018-02-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 20 Feb 2018, at 04:11, John Clark wrote: > > ​ ​Keith Douglas Farnsworth. Can a Robot Have Free Will? Entropy 19, no. 5 > (2017): 237. > > http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/5/237 > > > > ​> ​a precise, scientifically inspired, definition of free-

Re: Can a Robot Have Free Will?

2018-02-20 Thread John Clark
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:34 PM, Brent Meeker 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 choi

Re: Can a Robot Have Free Will?

2018-02-19 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/19/2018 7:11 PM, John Clark wrote: ​ ​ Keith Douglas Farnsworth. Can a Robot Have Free Will? Entropy 19, no. 5 (2017): 237. http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/5/237 / ​> ​ a precise, scientifically inspired, definition of free-will

Re: Can a Robot Have Free Will?

2018-02-19 Thread John Clark
> > ​ ​ Keith Douglas Farnsworth. Can a Robot Have Free Will? Entropy 19, no. 5 (2017): 237. > http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/5/237 *​> ​a precise, scientifically inspired, definition of free-will is offered > and the essential requirements for an agent to possess it in principle are > set out

Re: Can a Robot Have Free Will?

2018-02-17 Thread Brent Meeker
On 2/17/2018 1:42 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: Keith Douglas Farnsworth. Can a Robot Have Free Will? Entropy 19, no. 5 (2017): 237. http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/5/237 "Using insights from cybernetics and an information-based understanding of biological systems, a precise, scientifically i