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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Levels of Explanation and Definitions of Free
Message-ID: <604@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 17:03:45 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 17:03:45 1985
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Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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Keywords: free will

In article <1275@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes:
>>>the power to make rational choices is not the same as freedom.  Is a 
>>>machine with the power to only make the best rational decisions "free"?
>
>> You're talking about a hypothetical AI project but, yes, it would be.
>
>Oh.  A machine programmed to pick the best possible decision is free?
>Come on!  What force-fitting!
>
	And why not? Just because its a machine? In fact I forsee
some tricky legal problems over the extent to which such a system
would be considered a person and just what its rights would be in
relation to those of its manufacturer!
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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