On Mar 31, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Charlie Coleman wrote:
> If I granted the robot "free will," then it would indeed be the
> robot that
> was responsible.
How can a defective robot ever be considered to have "free will"?
> Now, I suppose the debate becomes is "free will" a "programming
> error" or not.
No, not if you are looking at this honestly.
Free will requires at least a minimal ability to correctly interpret
and process information. If all-powerful Ricardo created a robot that
could not correctly do those things (i.e., badly progammed), then no
matter how much he chants "Free will! Free will!", the actions of that
robot are the result of his design.
-- Ed Leafe
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