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Old 04-12-2019, 08:29 AM   #416 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg View Post
Why? That's just arbitrary.
I would say that it's because brains undergo a decision-making process influenced by environment and past experience. Far from magical and the permanence of a decision doesn't discount that decision-making process. If we programmed a robot to base its actions on environmental factors and past experience, I'd consider the resulting actions to be the robot's choice.
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