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<blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 2763390" data-attributes="member: 9646"><p>Hey, there has been many interesting comments, but this one helps me a lot.</p><p></p><p>My own comment is about Free Will / Freedom of Choice. My idea is that a person who has to choose something will have to evaluate through rationale (intellectual) criteria, but knowing / being aware of only a few of them, not all and their possible implications; then emotional response, personnal history, neurosis, and instinctive behaviour will weigh in, most of the time at an unconscious level. Add to this, that often one doesn't have hours to ponder a decision, so must make a "choice" based on insufficient information. So in the end, a person is unable to make the "good" choice, meaning that if a person could really make the good choice, there would not be any choice at all. Now, "good" must be in relation to something, and thereafter, what if you think about consequences in other domains? etc.</p><p></p><p>As such, we could imagine a computer being able to make much more rationale decisions, but in the end he won't be able to have access / treat <em>all</em> information. In addition, our thought processes are based both on impressions of the world (via our five senses) which are limited, plus via our thinking which uses abstracts (words have a relative meaning, not the same for everybody). We can imagine that a computer would apprehend the world much better (scanners, etc.), but what about treating abstract concepts?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Turanil, post: 2763390, member: 9646"] Hey, there has been many interesting comments, but this one helps me a lot. My own comment is about Free Will / Freedom of Choice. My idea is that a person who has to choose something will have to evaluate through rationale (intellectual) criteria, but knowing / being aware of only a few of them, not all and their possible implications; then emotional response, personnal history, neurosis, and instinctive behaviour will weigh in, most of the time at an unconscious level. Add to this, that often one doesn't have hours to ponder a decision, so must make a "choice" based on insufficient information. So in the end, a person is unable to make the "good" choice, meaning that if a person could really make the good choice, there would not be any choice at all. Now, "good" must be in relation to something, and thereafter, what if you think about consequences in other domains? etc. As such, we could imagine a computer being able to make much more rationale decisions, but in the end he won't be able to have access / treat [I]all[/I] information. In addition, our thought processes are based both on impressions of the world (via our five senses) which are limited, plus via our thinking which uses abstracts (words have a relative meaning, not the same for everybody). We can imagine that a computer would apprehend the world much better (scanners, etc.), but what about treating abstract concepts? [/QUOTE]
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