Friday, 3 June 2022

Being alive - can we be free?

 

Philosophy Vibe: Free Will and Determinism

Liberty and freedom are often mentioned in the news and everyday discussion.  However, if we can't even think freely, if we do not have free will, then how can we be truly free in anything anyway?  

Artificial intelligence (AI) and robots can do virtually everything that human can do, and generally can do it better.  Do human brains just run like computer programs anyway?  Perhaps the reason that people think differently is because they have different computer programming codes?  Is free will just an illusion?

You may find the following videos on free will also interesting:

Do We Have Free Will? - Philosophy Tube 

Christof Koch - Can Brains Have Free Will?

Thalia Wheatley - Philosophy of Free Will


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