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Can A Robot Have Free Will?

2017-02-28

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Using insights from cybernetics and an information-based understanding of biological systems, a precise, scientifically inspired, definition of free-will is offered and the essential requirements for an agent to possess it in principle are set out. These are: a) there must be a self to self-determine; b) there must be a non-zero probability of more than one option being enacted; c) there must be an internal means...

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Literature Corpus work: f140b3ce-8b9e-5db7-931f-8c6234531149
DOI: 10.20944/preprints201702.0105.v1

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