free will isn't silly, it's popular definitions of it that are askew. At the end of the day free will is, and can only be, acting in accordance with your own nature. The only alternative is dice-throwing. So there's no contradiction between free will and determinism.
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well, one might raise questions about conciousness. But I would agree that fish do. Fish definitely want to do fishy things, and preventing them from doing so is interferring with their free will.
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I think defining consciousness is a bit of a tough problem. I am not sure hard-disks or viruses qualify, I suspect fish might, but it's very hard to prove that. When harddrives or viruses start passing Turing tests, then I'll be ready to consider it.
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Replying to @0Kultra @ColumPaget and
Max Tegmark has an interesting definition that has nothing to do with conversation: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1219
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hmmm.... basically seems to come down to "It's quantum, baby", which is everyone's default mechanism for things they can't explain ;-)
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invocation of Quantum Magic is such an over-the-top code smell for ontology
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