"I don't think your analysis of "free choice" captures the relevant meaning."
Can you tell me why you think it doesn't? You think I was playing word games. I think I was cleanly picking a concept apart into fundamentals and relating my definition to each piece.
I assert that free choice means
1. you make purposeful choices
2. your choices don't feel like they are definite until you choose them
and that I have sufficiently shown why each of these relates to the definition I gave.
"it might help if one of those terms actually meant something"
They are all very clear AI terminology except value fulfilment, which should be self evident.
>I think I was cleanly picking a concept apart into fundamentals and relating my definition to each piece.
You were picking a particular stipulated definition apart, but the definition in question doesn't correspond to the concept of "free will" or "free choice" that people actually have. Playing around with definitions like this doesn't address any important issue.
Tthere is no sense in which (1) and (2) explain our sense of freedom of choice. You can perfectly well imagine that even if both (1) and (2) were true, you might nonetheless have no sense of free will. Even if you don't know what you future decisions will be, you can still feel like a "cog in the machine" with no power to act of your own volition. In fact, I sometimes really do feel like this. For example, if you've ever been extremely angry, you've probably had the feeling of not knowing exactly what you're going to do next, but nonetheless feeling that you have very little control over your actions.
>They are all very clear AI terminology except value fulfilment, which should be self evident.
Really? If I google for "value fulfillment payoff", the only result is a link to these posts. I'm know what the individual words mean, but I find the phrase a little baffling.
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"I don't think your analysis of "free choice" captures the relevant meaning."
Can you tell me why you think it doesn't? You think I was playing word games. I think I was cleanly picking a concept apart into fundamentals and relating my definition to each piece.
I assert that free choice means
1. you make purposeful choices
2. your choices don't feel like they are definite until you choose them
and that I have sufficiently shown why each of these relates to the definition I gave.
"it might help if one of those terms actually meant something"
They are all very clear AI terminology except value fulfilment, which should be self evident.
>I think I was cleanly picking a concept apart into fundamentals and relating my definition to each piece.
You were picking a particular stipulated definition apart, but the definition in question doesn't correspond to the concept of "free will" or "free choice" that people actually have. Playing around with definitions like this doesn't address any important issue.
Tthere is no sense in which (1) and (2) explain our sense of freedom of choice. You can perfectly well imagine that even if both (1) and (2) were true, you might nonetheless have no sense of free will. Even if you don't know what you future decisions will be, you can still feel like a "cog in the machine" with no power to act of your own volition. In fact, I sometimes really do feel like this. For example, if you've ever been extremely angry, you've probably had the feeling of not knowing exactly what you're going to do next, but nonetheless feeling that you have very little control over your actions.
>They are all very clear AI terminology except value fulfilment, which should be self evident.
Really? If I google for "value fulfillment payoff", the only result is a link to these posts. I'm know what the individual words mean, but I find the phrase a little baffling.