måndag 11 maj 2015

On free will

There is an exciting talk by Daniel Dennet about free will. His take is a very interesting one, being a compatibilist. But I would like to take another stab at this case. Not that I know much of it, I must admit. But of course it is one of the tricky ones. So, my take, here goes.

I think one should be able to give a more detailed account for what free will is than with guys like Daniel Dennet is doing. The problem is that there is a quite large gap between discussing determinism and free will. Determinism can be described like
F = m a
or is many other ways ans mathematically well formed laws. This is not a consequence of determinism. It is determinism, and it is how we can understand it.
At the other end of the spectrum, there is randomness. This is just as nice as determinism. It can be described using pure mathematics. We can say that the random variable X obeys the distribution A(P1, P2, ..., Pn), where the P's are parameters.
Now, the problem is that non of these descriptions fit free will, and at the same time it seem free will is something similar to these concepts. Could it be that one can define free will as: An entity has free will if, via communication, it can be made to obey either a deterministic law or any stochastic. Thus, my definition require that the entity can communicate some way.

Anyway, back to work. Let's elaborate more on this later.

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