Brain

Comments on the June 2008 issue of IEEE Spectrum about the SIngularity.

Deconstruction of the statement: “The question of free will is whether, and in what sense, rational agents exercise control over their actions and decisions.”

Removing randomness from quantum mechanics.

There is no free will. It cannot even be defined.

Maybe the original sin really was to gain consciousness (“your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil”, Genesis 3:5) which is why humans are doomed to “in pain… bring forth children”.

Some extrapolations of Douglas Hofstadter’s book I am a strange loop.