Eliezer isn’t as literate in neuroscience/cognitive science
I was using neuroscience as my fuel for thinking about AI before I knew what Bayes’s Rule was.
The reason I’m not responding in this thread is that things like anosognosia, split-brain experiments, fMRI etc. are orthogonal issues to the classical debate on free will, and if I ever handle it, I’ll handle it in a separate post.
For now I’ll simply note that if an fMRI can read your decision 10 seconds before you know it, it doesn’t mean that “your brain is deciding, not you!” It means that your decision has a cause and that introspection isn’t instantaneous. Welcome to a lawful universe.
Eliezer isn’t as literate in neuroscience/cognitive science
I was using neuroscience as my fuel for thinking about AI before I knew what Bayes’s Rule was.
The reason I’m not responding in this thread is that things like anosognosia, split-brain experiments, fMRI etc. are orthogonal issues to the classical debate on free will, and if I ever handle it, I’ll handle it in a separate post.
For now I’ll simply note that if an fMRI can read your decision 10 seconds before you know it, it doesn’t mean that “your brain is deciding, not you!” It means that your decision has a cause and that introspection isn’t instantaneous. Welcome to a lawful universe.