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Hopefully, we all acknowledge that software can make choices.
Anyone who has ever read a bank statement understands that the choices made by software can have an impact on the real world.
Let us imagine two pieces of software:
How would you go about distinguishing between the two? How would you tell the difference between the software that makes choices and has free will from the software that makes choices and does not have free will?
Anyone who has ever read a bank statement understands that the choices made by software can have an impact on the real world.
Let us imagine two pieces of software:
- One makes choices but does not have free will
- The other makes choices and has free will
How would you go about distinguishing between the two? How would you tell the difference between the software that makes choices and has free will from the software that makes choices and does not have free will?