On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 08:03:31AM -0600, Jason Resch wrote: > > Russell, > > Thanks for your answer. But I am having trouble seeing the link > between doing something stupid and randomness. Are you implying > randomness is necessary for stupidity or making errors?
How do you choose an irrational action except by reference to something random or pseudo-random? There is a special case where binary choices are involved of being antirational, ie always choosing the opposite of what a rational player would do. But the antirational strategy has no evolutionary advantage, nor is it free. > > > > > > >But in any case, we do not live in a deterministic world (its true > >that we live in a deterministic multiverse, but the individual worlds > >are not), so we have genuine randomness to exploit for free will, > >creativity and so on. > > Could an uploaded brain running on a deterministic computer act > irrationally or creatively? (assuming it's entire source code was > open source and it had no access to enviromental randomness) > As mentioned in previous post by a number of people, it is entirely possible for deterministic processes to be irrational. Re the creativity question - it is still an open problem, ISTM. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
