On 28 Oct 2014, at 08:01, LizR wrote:
On 28 October 2014 17:14, Richard Ruquist <yann...@gmail.com> wrote:
My simple-minded view of MWI is that it is deterministic and if it
is true then my consciousness is an illusion, period
Not necessarily your consciousness, you can be aware of things in a
deterministic universe surely? But probably your free will, yes.
There are certainly more people who oppose determinism and free will
than determinism and consciousness.
But determinism is not a threat for a very reasonable notion of free-
will, which is the (self) perception of a spectrum possibilities
(concerning my relation with my possible environments), together with
the ability to make some choice, and yes, why not, using an algorithm
if that can help, with simple rule like "if you want a limonade this
evening, either look now in your fridge or prepare yourself to take
the bike for searching a night-shop").
I think that the theory of free-will based on intrinsic
indeterminacies does not make sense in a computationalist theory (nor
in QM). I don't see how a random generator could add any free-will,
nor feeling of free-will. But there is a logical self-indeterminacy
which makes sense for any self-observing machine, and that is what
creates in the machine's mind the spectrum of possibilities, that is
(in the "toy" theory): sentences of the type <>t, and it is up to the
machine to realize the possibility or not, as far the possible
environment permits. Sometimes you have to hurry.
Bruno
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