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TheAncientGeek comments on Quotes and Notes on Scott Aaronson’s "The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 22 April 2014 11:58:13AM 0 points [-]

Free will isn't generally defined as necessarily operating outside of physics, so that is more an attack on a strawmman than a dissolution of the question.

Free will also doesn't mean a feeling.

If you didn't k ow the output of you're algorithm, you might feel free, and if you had free will you might feel free too. EYs solution isn't unique.