A robot might select an apple over an orange...

From	Jeff-Relf.Me @.
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Subject	A robot might select an apple over an orange...
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Date	2018-09-04 08:12 -0700

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A robot might select an apple over an orange,
but that doesn't mean it has "free will" ("the uncaused cause").

We're consumption machines, exploiting a niche,
(poorly) programmed by nature to take a LessBad "option".

We call ourselves "consumers" and the GDP measures our progress.

All of history, every lesson ever, every advance, tells me:

  Randomness is ignorance, nothing more.

Once the cards are all dealt, and the dice stop rolling,
and the bets are paid out, the "probability wave" has collapsed.

The biggest "loophole" in Bell's Theorem is:

  It's an _ Ensemble of tests, a series, not just one test,
  like a pollster, asking _ 5 people if they'll vote for Hillary or not.

You can't prove anything, not ThermoDynamics ( Entropy and eXergy ),
nor General Relativity; in fact, they _ contradict each other.

The best you can do is:

  - Find it useful ( in its domain ).
  - Try to Falsify it ( in its domain ).

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A robot might select an apple over an orange... Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2018-09-04 08:12 -0700
  Asking 5 liars if they'll vote for Hillary or not. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2018-09-04 09:03 -0700
    Re: Asking 5 liars if they'll vote for Hillary or not. % <persent@gmail.com> - 2018-09-04 09:05 -0700
  Re: A robot might select an apple over an orange... Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-09-04 11:25 -0700
    There is no such thing as an "uncaused cause" ( free will ). Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2018-09-04 12:46 -0700
      Re: There is no such thing as an "uncaused cause" ( free will ). "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2018-09-06 15:33 -0700
        Re: There is no such thing as an "uncaused cause" ( free will ). "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2018-09-06 21:29 -0700

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