| >>> What's the difference between the human thinking, feeling, making a choice and a trained neural network making a 'choice'? I would not say a neural network has free will. >> The difference is most likely the organization and the complexity of a network. Neural network doesn't have free will because it is too simple and can't even pass turing test. > I don't see what the Turing test has to do with free will, but it has been beaten multiple times already. my point was that neural network doesn't have free will, because it is too simple and cannot be regarded as a person, Turing test is one objective way to check if a program is capable of thinking. The wikipedia page on Turing test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test is not aware of any of the times when it was beaten. > If you re-ran the simulation from before the person was born to their death, the universe would progress through the exact same states. sure, it would be like a time machine. > In a simulation free will would be the ability to change your choices between runs of the exact same universe. that would not be a free will, that would be an absence of will, because if nothing changes why would person's reaction change? |