Amanojack comments on Righting a Wrong Question - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Rain 12 March 2010 11:05:58PM 0 points [-]

The only consistent way I can think of existing in a form without free will would be as a "prisoner" in my body: a mind that is capable of thinking and learning from the information presented to it by the senses, but unable to alter it in any way, the arms and body moving without the consent of the conscious mind.

Comment author: Amanojack 14 March 2010 02:30:26AM 0 points [-]

Since you're not stricken with this inability, you obviously have free will as you're interpreting it (but that result wouldn't be controversial).

Comment author: Rain 14 March 2010 03:17:34PM 0 points [-]

Obviously?

I was thinking more along the lines of a P-zombie, but with the consciousness intact and unable to influence the zombie's actions, disconnected from it somehow.