On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> At least you now agree that the atoms in my body could be replaced and >> I would feel the same. What if the atoms were replaced by a person: >> would I still have free will or would I, as you claim for a computer, >> only have the will of the programmer? > > > What do you mean by replacing the atoms with a person? Like the China Brain? > Quintillions of human beings each pretending to act like hydrogen? That > wouldn't work, although you might be able to model chemistry that way. No, I meant if a person did the replacing of the atoms in my body. I would then have been created and programmed by that person. Would I still have free will? Would I think I had free will? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
