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80 | Jenann Ismael on Connecting Physics to the World of Experience

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is There a Difference Between Humans and Computers?

I think it's not at all inconceivable that we would be able to build computers that would have exactly this structure. But I mean, honestly, like on my computer, I can write a program where I'm not able to predict what the outcome is going to be but probably my Macintosh laptop is not going to be said to have free will just because I did that. We are those kinds of things nature gives us inputs, but we do have this role in choosing and making our own selves and choosing goals and so on and values. And someday we could build a computer or an Android that could also have those capabilities.

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