Sorry to say this, but you've been caught up to. I hate to get
Wikipedia involved in this but here
goes:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will
It gives an over-view of what I've been thinking about. Pay particular
attention to Libet's experiment and follow-ups.
Certainly we can design a machine to appear to choose something: that was
done way back with those looms in the 18th century. But what about our
sense of "choice" when we create? If we have no free will, Jim, and
please do bring your objections to the neurologists, then what we make
are gestures that reflect the contexts from which we have arisen and in
which we operate. We're not talking about the dim past "beyond
knowledge", but the weather, the play of light on a desk, our internal
chemistry, our bank-book, our history and any number of random causal
elements that interact with our senses.
Of course, Jim, you're a
writerartistprogrammerwhocreates"life-likeforms"thoughthiswasdoneyearsago
bound for the Sorbonne to give a talk, and good luck to you.
Jess of the puppets
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