Nick_Tarleton comments on Causality and Moral Responsibility - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 June 2008 08:34AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 14 June 2008 08:01:19AM 0 points [-]

Joseph, that's easy. Even though there is technically a causal relationship between my brain and the armor's actions, its randomness means for all practical purposes there might as well be no relationship. I am no more responsible for the armor's actions than I am for some disastrous hurricane that almost certainly wouldn't have happened if I had wiggled my finger differently a year before. Under determinism, my thoughts predictably affect my body's actions.