Comment Re:In Defense of Artificial Intelligence (Score 2, Interesting) 483
This reminds me of a story I read a while ago about decision making - they tossed some folks in an MRI and presented them with a series of choices. According to the study, people made the decision up to 8 seconds before they actually made their decision.
The argument in the article was that this is proof that there's no free will. My first thought when I read that was 'how does that make any sense?' The only thing conclusive is that people are terrible at knowing when they've made a decision.
I think people don't really understand most things, including stuff we think we understand.
On the other hand, I also tend to wonder if there really is life inside the computer, and each time I push a key or something I'm killing a little electron.