Mastodawn

The Pleasure Principle 13h ago

What Free Will Actually Means

https://platoedsim.org/posts/what-free-will-actually-means/

#Philosophy #FreeWill #Consciousness

What Free Will Actually Means

Most people think free will is about choice, but the real question is much stranger.

Lupposofi 3d ago

Robert Noggle has revised his SEP-entry on The Ethics of Manipulation,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/

What a savoury topic, even without explicit references to sycophantic AI!

#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freeWill #decision #deception #lying #marketing #paternalism #filosofia #etiikka #philosophy #morality #oppression #nudges #person #sycophantic #ai #generativeAI #criticism #criticalThinking

The Ethics of Manipulation (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Philo Sophies Mar 28

🗽 Understanding #FreeWill – What does it really mean to make free choices? 💪

#FreeWill doesn’t require #chance or metaphysical magic. For #DanielDennett, the matter is surprisingly clear:
We are free when we are #selfdeterminedagents.

📽 Interview: https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk

📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/

#PhilosophyOfMind #Consciousness #Agency #Determinism #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #DecisionMaking #Zoomposium

Philo Sophies Mar 28

🗽 Understanding #FreeWill – Was bedeutet es wirklich, frei zu entscheiden? 💪

#FreierWille braucht keinen #Zufall und keine metaphysische Magie. Für #DanielDennett ist die Sache überraschend klar:
Frei sind wir dann, wenn wir #selbstbestimmteAgenten sind.

📽 Interview: https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk

📎 Informationen: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/

#PhilosophieDesGeistes #Bewusstsein #Handlungsfähigkeit #Determinismus #Kognitionswissenschaft #Neurowissenschaft #Entscheidungsfindung #Zoomposium

Awe & Wonder & Dream media Mar 27

https://omdaruliterature.blogspot.com/2026/03/free-will-as-self-limitation-of-god.html #FreeWill as Self-Limitation of #God #channeling #esoterics #spirituality #absolute , #karma , #manvantara , #Logos , #Jesus , #love , #Creator , #spirit , #HigherSelf , #evil , #time , #samsara

Quantum Splash Mar 27

#VitalikButerin Expresses Concerns Over #AI -Induced Power #Centralization
https://www.coinlive.com/ja/news-flash/1083460

#totalitarism #oligarchy #power #privacy #FreeWill #peace #dignity #HumanRights

Vitalik Buterin Expresses Concerns Over AI-Induced Power Centralization

PANews posted on X (formerly Twitter). In a public debate with e/acc representative Beff Jezos, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin expressed his concerns about the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI). He highlighted two primary risks associated with AI. The first is the risk of proliferation, where the technology's immense power could lead to catastrophic consequences if it falls into the wrong hands. However, it is the second risk that truly keeps him awake at night: the potential for AI to enable unprecedented, permanent, and inescapable authoritarian control. Buterin elaborated that while historical authoritarian regimes, no matter how powerful, had vulnerabilities and escape routes, the integration of AI with modern technology could eliminate these gaps. With AI, surveillance could become all-encompassing, predictions could preempt actions, and dissent could be quashed before it even forms. This scenario, according to Buterin, represents a significant threat to freedom and autonomy. He concluded by suggesting that even slowing down AI development by four years would be worthwhile to mitigate these risks.

Philo Sophies Mar 25

🧠 #CulturalEvolution – Why #Brains need to interact 🧑‍🧑‍🧒

📺 https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

#CulturalEvolution #Consciousness #Neuroscience #CognitiveNeuroscience #WolfSinger #PhilosophyOfMind #Interaction #SocialCognition #NeuralCorrelates #NCCP #Qualia #Self #I #Enactivism #ComplexSystems #NonlinearDynamics #FreeWill #Responsibility #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #QuantumPhysics #AntonZeilinger

Levka Mar 22

#FreeWill #neuroscience

"Whether or not we have free will is a question philosophers have been debating for millennia. In the early 1980s, there was a brief moment when it appeared the debate may finally have been settled.

The potential solution came not from philosophy, but neuroscience.

The answer, somewhat depressingly, was that free will didn’t exist. Experiments carried out by the neuroscientist Benjamin Libet appeared to show decisions being made in the brain before people were even aware of them.

It was as if science had finally revealed the strings of the puppet master controlling our thoughts and actions.

To even casual observers of the history of inquiries into free will, this pronouncement felt premature. Thankfully, they were right.

Scientists today are much more sceptical not only of the idea that free will doesn’t exist, but also of the notion that brain scans will ever definitively prove or disprove its existence. But why?"

https://www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/free-will-neuroscience