Actually, my point is that we act as if we believe we have free will. That was intended to support Nick's claim that everyone seems to believe things science denies.
-- Russ Abbott Professor, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 5:34 PM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure, ok. I don’t know what any of this has to do with Russ’ lecture on > free will. > > I was just responding in the affirmative to the apparently underlying > question of if we are all reactive machines. Of course we are. While the > reaction could be complicated, or the stimulus could be communicated over a > faulty channel and thus result in a response that is inappropriate, how * > *could** it be any other way? I didn’t say anything about the taxonomy > of machines being limited or any individual instance being simplistic. > That’s just a straw man. > > > > *From: *Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of Steve Smith < > [email protected]> > *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > *Date: *Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 4:30 PM > *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] alternative response > > > > playing "the Imp(uter)" I think that is similar to what Glen has > asserted/suggested/implied/offered? > > > > On 6/14/20 4:45 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Steve writes: > > < To some (many?) that might be what our collective "rattling on" > looks/sounds like. > > > I’m claiming all conversations are like that. Maybe the agents have a > little more state, and the transactions are less frequent. Same. > > Marcus > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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