• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Well, intelligence is defined as what the intelligence test measures.

    Right, so where’s the Free Will test?

    sentience. Or consciousness.

    IMO these are a bit worse defined than intelligence, but still more so than free will. I don’t think it would mean anything to say I don’t believe in free will, but when I say I don’t believe in consciousness, the delusion I deny is one people actually have. The state of your brain is only that, a state, but people are possessed by an overpowering intuition of having experience that is independent from the physical reality and data structure.

    Free will on the other hand isn’t even a delusion, it isn’t anything more than rhetoric.