Are the robots we create alive?
Fragment of a discussion from User talk:Sheldor
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It doesn´t sound like the ramblings of a madman, but sounds like another follower of hidden variable theories. Einstein also followed this school of thought and he seemed a very smart guy.
But if free will is part of the system and not external, and free will is free and not only a consequence of external inputs, then the system as a whole will exhibit different outputs to the same inputs.
inputs -> system(laws of physics + free will) -> different outputs to the same inputs, but different choices driven by free will
Deterministic systems behave like non-deterministic ones in the presence of free will. You can even strip out the inputs for a contained system, and the system will still give different outputs.
MN
