Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues
dojan@lemmy.world 9 months agoNeuroscience is pretty confident that choice is not an actual thing We can control one of these three things to get the effect we want.
Bullshit.
djsoren19@yiffit.net 9 months ago
I can confirm it’s bullshit, because neuro being confident of anything is bullshit.
The human brain is an enigma we know nearly nothing about. Whether or not free will exists is still a pretty massive unanswered question. This person is at best an idiot, more likely a troll, and at worst a Nazi trying to excuse others bad behavior.
sudoreboot@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
We don’t have to prove that the brain isn’t puppeted from some external realm of “consciousness” in order to say we can be quite confident that it isn’t, because positing that there is such a thing as free will in the traditional notion of the term is magical thinking, which most of us might agree isn’t particularly respectable.
What we can do is take a compatibilist approach and say there is something that is “effectively indeterministic” about human decision making, because we can’t ever ourselves predict our own actions any faster than we observe them. I don’t have any moral contribution to make here; I just wanted to add this reflection.