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Old July 23rd, 2006, 12:03 PM
Fred H. Fred H. is offline
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Default Re: free will, determinism, and morality

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Tom: My notion of free will is anything but incoherent. It may well be wrong but it's the ultimate in coherence: choices are made by the neural network in each person's brains. There's nothing else, there can not be incoherence in a set of one.
IOW, Alex, bottom line, Tom’s “reality” dictates that there really is no truly autonomous, morally responsible, and sapient “Tom”; there are only neural networks inside a body—a body that currently is labeled “Tom” by the neural networks inside that body, and also by various other neural networks inside other equally machinelike bodies—and this “Tom” simply “behaves” however the so-called “choices” made by the “Tom” body neural networks dictate; and, as it turns out, the POV that “choices are made by the neural network in each person's brains,” is deemed to be “coherent” by the Tom body neural networks.
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