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> There can be no mechanical or materialistic explanation of free will. Of course there is: Free will is the feeling you have when you become aware of a decision made by your subconscious mind, (which is deterministic). Why did you order the salmon and not the steak? Sapolsky would identify all the factors, on various timescales, leading to the action that you took. You think that you chose freely, but you didn’t. Yo…
That would mean that free will is reducible to a mathematical structure and if that's the case then an existence proof of such a structure would be very useful for the development of artificial general intelligence. If that's not the case and there is no algorithm for free will then it is, by definition, irreducible to a deterministic computational implementation which means that no algorithm will ever have free will…
Re: Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will
#21Follow up to this is that I will probably write something about the general confusion around algorithms (special mathematical structures) and how these terms are used to make nonsensical arguments about intelligence, consciousness, and free will.