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Old March 22nd, 2003, 07:55 AM
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Default Re: [OT] Plato\'s Pub and Philosophical Society

Some people say that only humans are self-aware and animals are not. According to them, a dog is not capable of introspection - it is able to learn and react to situations, but it does not know that it is doing so. I think that there is no way to confirm if this is true or not. Intuitively, it does not seem right that humans are special and fundamentally different from other life forms.

If humans have free will, then do dogs have free will? How about fish? Insects? Bacteria? Where do we draw the line? In my opinion, if we say that humans have free will, then all life forms must have it also.

If it is possible to arrange a collection of atoms in such a way as to have free will (as in a human brain), then in theory it must also be possible to construct a machine that has free will.
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