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I don't even know what free will is supposed to be. Either all our decisions are deterministic, or they're due to random quantum phenomena, at some level. Which of those is the good scenario?


Linking it back up to my original question ("what happens if you don't press the button?") - I suspect Google cannot actually know you weren't going to. The outcome is computable but intractable.

Free will is just a level of analysis that assumes the outcome is intractable, and doesn't bother trying to compute it.


I don't know physics, but can't quantum phenomena be deterministic? Maybe we just haven't discovered the rules yet.


Well, if everything is deterministic we might as well scroll to the end.

I think I’ll go with random quantum please.


How's that any better? You might as well scroll to the end there too.




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