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Delayed mediational processes can generate agency
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By telling ourselves we've made choices, we make ourselves agents. Free will occurs when decision-making processes are delayed to allow more alternatives to be tested. Systems capable of delayed decision making have as much free will/agency as we do.
Hence any computer system with those procesess can be said to have agency.
Marvin Minsky (1986), as articulated by Joseph Rychlak (1991).
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Symbol systems can't exhibit agency☜Symbol processors can never have agency. Agency requries teleology, dialectical reasoning, and free will. Computers lack these traits, because they dont understand meanings, the relations between them, and their relation to the world. ☜98CE71
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Delayed mediational processes can generate agency
Delayed mediational processes can generate agency☜By telling ourselves weve made choices, we make ourselves agents. Free will occurs when decision-making processes are delayed to allow more alternatives to be tested. Systems capable of delayed decision making have as much free will/agency as we do.☜EF597B
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Delaying action provides us with free will
Delaying action provides us with free will☜Free will stems from the power to restrain from action. Delaying the impulse to act provides room for other actions to be considered. This time in which alternatives are weighed provides the appearance of free will. ☜98CE71
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Agency is due predication and choice »
Agency is due predication and choice
Agency is due predication and choice☜Even with delaying mechanisms, automatic decision-making processes still cant choose their own goals or reflect on the meaning of alternatives. The standards they use to choose between alternatives arent the result of their own status as agents.☜EF597B
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