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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.
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IOW, Alex, bottom line, Tom’s “reality†dictates that there really is no truly autonomous, morally responsible, and sapient “Tomâ€; 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.