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LaPlace's Demon says to you, "I know you are going to eat this bowl of ice cream".
If you could eat that bowl of ice cream but decide not to then determinism is false.
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So if you built a robot that was programmed to do the opposite of what the demon said, is it your position that the robot would have free will? Is it your position that the robot's behavior is not governed by a set of deterministic laws?
If that is not your position, please explain why your argument in favor of free will applies to humans but not to robots.
I actually thought of your exact argument a few months ago and had briefly changed my mind into thinking that free will exists, but a friend set me straight. The demon cannot exist as specified. It is similar to why the
halting problem cannot be solved.
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