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Erik Hoel on Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science

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The Paradoxes of Free Will and Predictive Machines

Our understanding of free will and predicting the future is filled with paradoxes. People often assume that a perfect model of the universe can determine our actions, but this leads to infinite regression and paradoxical traps. Until we fully reconcile the extrinsic and intrinsic factors, it is too early to claim we don't have free will. We cannot have an incomplete science and neuroscience struggles to explain our experiences. Science is not complete and parallels the concerns about AI.

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